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Date:      Wed, 23 Jul 2003 19:07:30 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
Cc:        sparc64@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Floppyless release build of sparc64
Message-ID:  <20030723160730.GA17720@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030723155758.GA372@locore.ca>
References:  <200307230553.h6N5rrpN058773@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030723061643.GC45101@sunbay.com> <20030723155758.GA372@locore.ca>

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On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:57:58AM -0400, Jake Burkholder wrote:
> Apparently, On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:16:43AM +0300,
> 	Ruslan Ermilov said words to the effect of;
>=20
> > A similar change would be in order for sparc64.  Patch is
> > attached, please review.  The net effect is that we save
> > huge CPU times in release.9 and do not create the useless
> > boot.flp floppy image (the sparc64/mkisoimages.sh script
> > doesn't need it).
>=20
> boot.flp is actually useful on sparc64 because you can dd it to a disk
> from solaris and then boot off it to install.  I'm happy with having
> the option of not building it if it saves time but please make it an
> option.
>=20
OK, then things will be left as is.  There's already an option for
this; it's called NO_FLOPPIES (documented in the release(7) manpage).


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru@sunbay.com		Sunbay Software Ltd,
ru@FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer

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