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From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: Duraid Madina <duraid@octopus.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Floppy Support
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On 03-May-2003 Duraid Madina wrote:
> Cliff L. Biffle wrote:
> 
>> On Saturday 03 May 2003 06:16 am, Duraid Madina wrote:
>> 
>>>Can anyone give a *good* reason why floppies should still be supported
>>>from this point onwards?
>> 
>> 
>> 1. El Torito.  Last I checked, under emulation, 2.88MB was the largest boot 
>> image available, so fitting the bootloader/kernel/etc. onto two floppies is 
>> still quite significant.
> 
> We could use El Torito's "type 4" hard disk emulation. Installing 
> FreeBSD from such an environment seems a little gross, but religiously 
> mangling kernels to fit onto 1.44Mb floppies seems worse.

We already use the type 3 no emulation mode to boot both on 4.8 and 5.0.

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