cvs commit: src/release Makefile

[Andrew Turner]

Scott Long wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Wilko Bulte wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 02:13:07PM -0500, Ken Smith wrote..
>>
>>> On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 09:30 -0500, Ken Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 14:24 +0000, Ken Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> kensmith    2006-01-30 14:24:31 UTC
>>>>>
>>>>>   FreeBSD src repository
>>>>>
>>>>>   Modified files:
>>>>>     release              Makefile
>>>>>   Log:
>>>>>   Enable splitting up the MFSROOT floppy on amd64, the contents 
>>>>> now overflow
>>>>>   one floppy's worth of space.
>>>>>
>>>>>   Revision  Changes    Path
>>>>>   1.898     +1 -0      src/release/Makefile
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Note: I'm guilty of a pretty big crime here.  I can't locate my USB
>>>> floppy drive at the moment and don't have any amd64 machines with 
>>>> "real"
>>>> floppy drives in them.  I'll go buy another USB floppy drive 
>>>> tonight and
>>>> test that the resulting floppies actually work.
>>>>
>>>> But we're overflowing the MFSROOT floppy and release builds on amd64
>>>> were broken as a result.  If this commit does somehow result in busted
>>>> floppies we need to fix other stuff to make it work, unless we somehow
>>>> make what's needed in the MFSROOT floppy smaller we need 
>>>> split-floppies
>>>> to work...
>>>>
>>>> I'll test ASAP regardless.
>>>
>>>
>>> Seems they work...
>>>
>>> Five floppies.  Fun wow...  :-)
>>
>>
>> Reminds me of Slackware version 0.0 or somesuch :)  Or 386BSD 0.1 + PK
>> for that matter :)))
>>
>
> That was 8 floppies, iirc.
>
>
> Note: this amounts to life support for floppies.  The end IS coming.  
> What we need is for people to start working out the kinks of using usb 
> ram drives to run the installer.

It's on my todo list for the BSDInstaller.

> I do not expect to ship FreeBSD 7.0 with floppies.

I don't bother with building floppies under the BSDInstaller. I'm 
looking at booting from USB and the network into the BSDInstaller to 
install FreeBSD.

Andrew