From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 13 2: 7:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D6F437B405; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 02:07:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@spare0.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.114]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA26724; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 18:37:23 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010913020057E.jkh@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 18:37:22 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Jordan Hubbard Subject: Re: kern.flp blown out again Cc: current@freebsd.org, wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl 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 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