Floppy Support

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sun, 4 May 2003 12:03, Duraid Madina wrote:
> > How has FreeBSD prevented you from installing because we fit the kernel
> > on floppies?
>
> The snapshot server is basically wasting CPU cycles, and has been for a
> couple of weeks now. Support for my hard disk controllers has been
> checked in, but here I sit, waiting. Why? Because we fit the kernel on
> floppies.

Load it after sysinstall starts?

There is a 'Load KLD' menu where you can load drivers of a separate floppy 
disk. Of course that only works if the driver you need is a module but I 
would be pretty suprised if a new device driver didn't do that. If you want 
someone to send you a prebuilt .ko because you can't build it yourself I 
would be more than happy to do so.

And as a counter point..

I have systems (which are _not_ old) that have SCSI CDR's and SCSI cards with 
no BIOS in them so they can't boot off CD yet I managed to install FreeBSD on 
them very successfully.

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