Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 08:30:27 -0500 From: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: boot.flp in 1/27/98 -STABLE... Message-ID: <199901281330.IAA22988@spoon.beta.com>
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I've just finished building my n'th release of -STABLE, and that dang boot floppy is still too big. I know I came in on the trailing edge of the discussion to change the whole boot thing, but after poking through a few ideas, and testing them out, I came up with a few that might make for a reasonable transition... So people that wanted to use -STABLE could boot from a floppy or CD while the 'real solution' was worked out, without having to install 3.0-RELEASE, then go through the upgrade process.... My first thought was to use a 2.88MB floppy image. I've heard mixed results on LS-120 drives, but I know that CDs can use them, solving at least half the problem. My second thought was to possibly use the "Stressed" floppy formats. The fd1720 looks more than big enough to hold the whole thing, as it appears that the only thing missing from boot.flp is the boot directory, coming in at 200-and-something K (lets just say < 300K, its been a few hours since I looked at it). If this stressed format is actually real, it should work. I haven't checked to see if a CD boot program will recognize this or not, so that may be a gotcha.... In any event, a 2 floppy boot works, but its a pain to tote two floppies around when you're used to just popping the CD in.... Anyhow, just making some "band aid" suggestions to try to increase the exposure of -STABLE so we can use it a lot more, and find more bugs.... -Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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