i386/62023: Boot floppy image is 2.8Mb

[Sven Storgards]

>Number:         62023
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       Boot floppy image is 2.8Mb
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jan 28 00:10:14 PST 2004
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Sven Storgards
>Release:        5.2-RELEASE
>Organization:
Storgards Internetworking
>Environment:
n/a
>Description:
The boot floppy image ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.2-RELEASE/floppies/boot.flp is 2.8Mb.
This means that FreeBSD cannot be used on hardware which can only boot from a 1.4Mb floppy devices.
Please change the booting architecture so that only 1.4Mb floppies can be used.
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