Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 17:15:05 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Fred Clift <fclift@verio.net> Cc: <alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 Message-ID: <15810.64745.425793.33748@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <20021101150820.X7968-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net> References: <20021101211647.GA11031@dragon.nuxi.com> <20021101150820.X7968-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net>
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Fred Clift writes: > On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, David O'Brien wrote: > > > > > > It has become very hard to produce boot floppies for 5.0 on the Alpha > > platform. The kernel has just grown too large. The amount of effort > > required to get 'make release' to properly build the floppy images just > > requires too much effort. > > Anyone care to provide more information on what exactly is required on the > floppy that makes it so big? is it the _very_ wide range of > hardware/drivers needed to fit a good cross-section of the target > machines? I'm just curious. One cannot make an alpha kernel fit on a floppy alongside the loader unless one removes nearly all drivers (including disk drivers), NFS, IPV6, etc,etc. > > > We do desire to offer a small boot image (say 8 MB) that one can 'dd' > > onto the beginning of a hard disk and boot from that to do an install. > > So the two options off hand will be boot from CD or boot from temp hard > disk? > > Are there other, (though perhaps painful) options? I'm somewhat concerned > that I'm going to have to open up my box and put a hard disk in it just to > do an install... Netbooting. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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