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

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:48:55AM -0700 I heard the voice of
Scott Long, and lo! it spake thus:
> Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> >BTW Does camcontrol rescan cause the devices to be detected? Perhaps 
> >sysinstall could be "enhanced" to perform this duty as part of it's 
> >reprobe  machinations.
> 
> See my comment about blowing out the mfsroot.gz file.  If you're not
> careful with this one then you'll wind up pulling in libcam, which will
> certainly create a size problem.

# $FreeBSD: src/release/i386/boot_crunch.conf,v 1.56 2003/01/23 08:30:47 ru Exp $
[...]
progs [...] camcontrol
[...]
libs [...] -lcam [...]


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