Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 18:24:32 +0100 From: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD64 boot floppies Message-ID: <20060104172432.GB691@bsd.trippelsdorf.de> In-Reply-To: <43BC020E.4000606@samsco.org> References: <20060104120024.2556B16A420@hub.freebsd.org> <20060104075019.W36259@roble.com> <20060104162356.GA691@bsd.trippelsdorf.de> <43BC020E.4000606@samsco.org>
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On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 10:12:46AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > >On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 07:59:08AM -0800, Roger Marquis wrote: > > > >>Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > >> > >>>When I upgraded my old Celeron box a year ago, I had to buy a CDROM > >>>burner, so that I could burn the install CD for my new machine. Since > >>>than it is sitting idle in its slot. > >> > >>You could also have purchased a USB-CD-RW or USB-DVD-RW. > > > > > >Sure, but the point is that I don't need any kind of burner. > > > > > >>The problem with floppies is their A) tendency to develop bad > >>sectors, and B) increasing rarity. The lines of code needed for a > >>boot floppy would be much better spent on other bootable media, > >>Flash, DVD, etc, all of which would have larger and more > >>appreciative audiences. > > > > > >The infrastructure to automatically produce the boot floppies is > >already there. All that is needed, is the short patch from John to > >turn it on. > >BTW I tested the floppies today and everything is working without any > >problem. > > > > Ah, so you built a release with John's patch, and the result works? Yes. > If so, we might as well commit it. How many floppies were generated? Four floppies: boot and kern1-3. (I used RELEASETAG=RELENG_6 for the build) -- Markus
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