Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 20:00:49 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD64 boot floppies Message-ID: <20060103040049.GA54882@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <200512300834.51959.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <200512301245.57820.andrea@brancatelli.it> <20051230130529.GK52756@ip.net.ua> <200512300834.51959.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 08:34:50AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday 30 December 2005 08:05 am, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 12:45:57PM +0100, Andrea Brancatelli wrote: > > > For i386 we have > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.0-RELEASE/floppies/ > > > but for Amd64 there's no > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/6.0-RELEASE/floppies/ > > > > > > How can I get installation floppies for 6.0 / amd64? > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/installation-amd64.html#FLOPPIES > > FYI, it would be trivial to support with the splitfs stuff now. You'd > basically just need to copy over the variables from i386 to set the > sizes, etc. please, Please, PLEASE no... why add the pain of floppies to the release mix when no one in their right mind as an AMD64 machine that has a floppy drive AND doesn't have a CDROM (or DVD) drive. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. A: Why is top-posting (putting a reply at the top of the message) frowned upon?
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