Patch for floppies

Rob B robbyrnes at ozemail.com.au
Tue Feb 24 02:31:07 PST 2004


At 05:52 AM 5/02/2004, Wilko Bulte wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 11:06:28AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > Ok, since the cross-built floppies don't work for whatever reason, 
> someone is
> > going to need to build a native alpha release and then post those floppies
> > for testing (or test them themselves).  I currently don't have an alpha 
> setup
> > such that I can do this, so I'm posting the patch to do so.  It's quite
> > simple and is at http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/alpha.floppies.patch
>
>I will have a go at it. Be patient..


Wilko,

Did the patch apply successfully?  I'm keen to know because my old PC 64 
can't boot from it's CD-ROM, only floppy.

If you haven't had the time, could you give me a pointer on what to do 
after the patch is applied to build the floppies?

Cheers,
rob


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