Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 04:14:51AM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:05:14AM -0700 I heard the voice of
> Scott Long, and lo! it spake thus:
> > 
> > For 5.x we already have a 3rd floppy that is dedicated to modules.
> > Unfortunately, it doesn't work nearly as well as it should because there
> > is no way to activate it during the boot sequence; it can only be used
> > once sysinstall is running.  Also, it too is nearly overflowing.
> 
> Well, that's why I suggest more.  Have a "network cards" floppy, and a
> "mass storage devices" floppy, etc.  We should be able to fit the
> half-dozen most common network cards, the ata drivers, and a half dozen
> of the more common SCSI drivers on the boot kernel.  That'll get us far
> enough to be able to load the drivers off the other disks, as well as
> install with just that on many systems.

Ideas are cheap, but someone's going to have to write the sysinstall
code to do that (or any other modified scheme people might be able to
come up with).

Kris
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