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Date:      Sun, 16 Jul 2000 15:07:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/scripts dokern.sh 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007161506170.11386-100000@semuta.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <200007162201.PAA26160@netplex.com.au>

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> Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > 
> > I've already suggested that we could use a 3rd floppy for alpha- to contain
> > modules (like firmware).
> 
> We might consider doing this for the x86 as well.  ie: put all the
> obscure-but-useable-for-install drivers on a drivers disk.  We might be able
> to trim a bit more out of the BOOTMFS kernel if we did that too.

Yup. This was the idea also. Now that we have a fairly studly modules system,
this is sort of the right thing to do.

-matt





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