Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 03:09:16 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Rob B <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au> Cc: ticso@cicely.de Subject: Re: 5.2-BETA issues Message-ID: <20031207020916.GA42518@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.2.20031207125004.023f7ec0@127.0.0.1> References: <6.0.1.1.2.20031207114545.024cb5e0@127.0.0.1> <20031207011129.GZ42518@cicely12.cicely.de> <6.0.1.1.2.20031207125004.023f7ec0@127.0.0.1>
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On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 12:56:02PM +1100, Rob B wrote: > At 12:11 PM 7/12/2003, Bernd Walter sent this up the stick: > >On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:54:10AM +1100, Rob B wrote: > >> Will there be floppies built for 5.2-BETA (or 5.2-RELEASE for that > >matter)? > > > >There will be no more floppies because of size issues. > > bugger :( I don't suppose that FreeBSD will ever suport dd-ing whatever > file will be used to boot from to swap space in the same way that Open- and > NetBSD do? At least this way there won't be so much of a size restriction > on that file. You can dd an ISO image to any disk type media on alpha. Unlike PCs they don't make a difference between CD, HDD, FDD, ... drives. But alphas don't support booting from a partition like suns do. If NetBSD/OpenBSD supports it then they need to have selection code in the bootsector. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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