AMD64 boot floppies

[John Baldwin]

On Monday 02 January 2006 11:00 pm, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 08:34:50AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Friday 30 December 2005 08:05 am, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 12:45:57PM +0100, Andrea Brancatelli wrote:
> > > > For i386 we have
> > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.0-RELEASE/floppies/
> > > > but for Amd64 there's no
> > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/6.0-RELEASE/floppies
> > > >/
> > > >
> > > > How can I get installation floppies for 6.0 / amd64?
> > >
> > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/installation-amd64.html#FLOPPIES
> >
> > FYI, it would be trivial to support with the splitfs stuff now.  You'd
> > basically just need to copy over the variables from i386 to set the
> > sizes, etc.
>
> please, Please, PLEASE no... why add the pain of floppies to the release
> mix when no one in their right mind as an AMD64 machine that has a floppy
> drive AND doesn't have a CDROM (or DVD) drive.

What pain?  We no longer use custom kernels for floppy images.  I think I've 
successfully removed the pain from floppies now.  See the simple 5 or 6-line 
patch I posted in a reply to Scott.  The makefiles now take care of splitting 
a GENERIC kernel up into however many floppies are needed, etc.  The only 
possible change is that if the entire mfsroot doesn't fit on boot.flp you 
have to add 1 more line to define SPLIT_MFSROOT as on Alpha and then you are 
done.

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