Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 09:16:47 -0700 (MST) From: Fred Clift <fclift@verio.net> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: "alpha@freebsd.org" <alpha@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 (fwd) Message-ID: <20021105091514.L69586-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20021105093952.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 05-Nov-2002 Thyer, Matthew wrote: > > I'd hope we can split the Alpha boot floppies even further to get around these kind of problems. > > > > What is required at minimum is the following: > > This is what we do already. Even i386 now uses 3 floppies to install. The problem is > that a really, really stripped down 5.0 kernel still doesn't fit onto kern.flp with the > loader. Being new to the alpha architecture, my biggest problem with all this is that I dont know enough to even have vague ideas of _why_ the i386 bare kernel is so much smaller than the alpha bare kernel. Can anyone explain this? I'm really just curious :). Fred -- Fred Clift - fclift@verio.net -- Remember: If brute force doesn't work, you're just not using enough. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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