From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 13 2: 1:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from winston.freebsd.org (adsl-64-173-15-98.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.15.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A64737B403 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 02:01:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f8D90vT64366; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 02:00:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@freebsd.org) To: wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern.flp blown out again In-Reply-To: <20010913105806.B45320@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20010913014332U.jkh@freebsd.org> <20010913105806.B45320@freebie.xs4all.nl> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010913020057E.jkh@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 02:00:57 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 10 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hm. Isn't this a strong sign that something fundamental must be done > about the boot floppy process? Alpha has been suffering from this longer > already due to the bigger binaries. Hey, be my guest, just so long as we can install from whatever you come up with. :-) Seriously, the fact that it needs fundamental fixing is why we're still using what we do. It's just easier to keep band-aiding it, as ugly a scenario as that might be. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message