Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 04:01:28 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "alpha@freebsd.org" <alpha@freebsd.org>, Fred Clift <fclift@verio.net> Subject: Re: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 (fwd) Message-ID: <3DC90498.4A310563@mindspring.com> References: <XFMail.20021105160234.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > > You sure it's not all of the drivers in the boot path that don't > > need to be there because they aren't supported by SRM? > > Terry, *sigh* > > The current BOOTMFS kernel contains only _one_ SCSI driver, > ahc. It contains _no_ ethernet drivers, no USB, etc. I think > it might not contain cd9660 filesystem support. It really is > a very stripped down kernel we are talking about here. Not compared to the stripped down kernels that used to fit on one floppy. Actually, the discussion was about leaving out things that were not needed for loading the OS into it, and splitting the kernel/mfs load onto two seperate disks, and on splitting the kernel itself between disks. All the FS support code should be capable of living on other floppies (for example), since the loader can read FFS to load them in as modules, etc.. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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