Floppies for ALPHA

[David O'Brien]

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On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:38:48PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:54:36PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > I've got that feeling that the consensus was to drop the floppy
> > support for Alpha, as supporting it becomes a nightmare.  If so,
> 
> Yes, that consensus seems to be there. Finally.. :)
> 
> The question is if the way forward is a minimini.iso so a really
> minimal ISO image (<< in size that miniinst.iso) or some other mechanism
> like NetBSD or ancient SunOS 3.x used. Which, IIRC, was an image one dropped
> in to the swap area of a disk and booted from. 

Why do we have to choose one?  We should offer multiple ways (as we do
today).  The problem is not offering a small downloadable image to
install an Alpha from -- but that 1.44MB is a ridiculous size constraint
for that image.
 
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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)