Floppyless release build of sparc64

[David O'Brien]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:50:10PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > > boot.flp is actually useful on sparc64 because you can dd it to a disk
> > > > from solaris and then boot off it to install.  I'm happy with having
> > > > the option of not building it if it saves time but please make it an
> > > > option.
> > > 
> > > OK, then things will be left as is.  There's already an option for
> > > this; it's called NO_FLOPPIES (documented in the release(7) manpage).
> > 
> > BUT the size of the "floppy" should be something like 10MB so that we
> > know we will *never* overflow it during "make release".
> > 
> Should the need arise for that, it's a two-line change to release/Makefile,
> by just bumping MFSSIZE and BIGBOOTSIZE for sparc64.

You're missing the point.  The size should be set now to something that
will *never* be too small.  Waiting until "make release" is broken is
stupid in this case.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)