Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 18:37:22 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org, wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl Subject: Re: kern.flp blown out again Message-ID: <XFMail.20010913183722.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20010913020057E.jkh@freebsd.org>
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On 13-Sep-2001 Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > 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. I have a patch for sysinstall which allows you to load kld's from a floppy. Basically if you can boot the floppy you can load everything else you need later on. (Except non-pnp ISA devices because you can't specify port/irq/etc) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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