Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 22:19:09 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "John W. DeBoskey" <jwd@unx.sas.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), software@kew.com Subject: Re: make release produces unbootable boot floppies, no boot loader, no /kernel Message-ID: <199901210619.WAA06427@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Jan 1999 00:54:36 EST." <199901210554.AAA51853@bb01f39.unx.sas.com>
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> Hang on a second... I think you might be putting words in my > mouth... I'm not saying that the nfs boot floppy is the One True > Boot Floppy. I see no reason why we can't have a netboot.flp and > a dskboot.flp created. The slicing that's being contemplated at the moment is actually "install from CDROM" and "install from anywhere else". The CDROM support actually covers a reasonable amount of code (although there are some angsty issues about ATAPI ZIP/LS120 disks still). > If you really want to make things easier for the beginner, why > not provide a DOS boot program. Then you wouldn't even have to > worry about boot floppies. Tell new folks to copy the boot program > to the DOS partition and run it from DOS. Case closed. No boot > floppy required. I can imagine half a dozen ways to make this work. Please read everything that Robert Nordier has written about how it's not possible to boot once DOS has started. Or take it from me - we have canned support for that mode of operation and we're not going back. > Unfortunately, I'm not a committer, and it really isn't a > technical question... It's a political issue... FreeBSD seems to > want 'The One True Floppy'... Not really; and if you have diffs that let us split into a couple of cleanly separated floppies with no missing cases then we would enthusiastically leap onboard. But "net/no-net" isn't enough of a dividing line. We're pretty much resigned to the death of "one true floppy". 8( -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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