Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 10:03:19 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com> To: Duraid Madina <duraid@octopus.com.au> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy Support Message-ID: <20030504170319.GA11498@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <3EB4E58E.3070804@octopus.com.au> References: <3EB3C118.6020203@octopus.com.au> <200305031817.16068.bsdterm@HotPOP.com> <3EB450E0.9060702@octopus.com.au> <20030503235911.GA64288@shall.anarcat.ath.cx> <3EB45D98.50106@octopus.com.au> <20030504023512.GA24882@dragon.nuxi.com> <3EB4E58E.3070804@octopus.com.au>
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On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 08:03:58PM +1000, Duraid Madina wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: > >On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 10:23:52AM +1000, Duraid Madina wrote: > > > >>The fact that FreeBSD insists on fitting its kernel onto floppies has so > >>far prevented me from installing it on my not terribly new hardware. > > > >How has FreeBSD prevented you from installing because we fit the kernel > >on floppies? Ah. > The snapshot server is basically wasting CPU cycles, and has been for a > couple of weeks now. Support for my hard disk controllers has been > checked in, but here I sit, waiting. Why? Because we fit the kernel on > floppies. > > >Don't worry that won't happen -- AMD has committed to the current type of > >BIOS and plans to NOT switch to EFI. > > You haven't used an EFI box yet, have you. ;) I have. Notice that AMD64 systems don't do EFI. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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