* Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-11 10:19 +0100]: > Paul Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Understood. I just think saying "let's get rid of floppies" is > > shooting a dog that happens to be near to hand because you don't like > > that dog, to stretch the analogy. > > I don't think you have any idea how difficult it is (and has been for > a couple of years now) just to keep the install floppies alive. The > kernel keeps growing, and the amount of "must-have" features (such as > acpi) keeps growing, and every time the boot floppies overflow we have > to toss out yet another driver that about a dozen people vehemently > tell us they can't live without.
Why not split the kernel onto 2 disks? The code to do this is already there and seems to work. And the people who think they absolutly need disks would have to deal with 4 disks, but that would be better than no disks. Look at the commit history of /usr/src/lib/libstand/splitfs.c. Is there a reason not to use it? Nicolas _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
