Re: Floppyless release build of sparc64

From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 23:50:10 +0300
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:55:10AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 07:07:30PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:57:58AM -0400, Jake Burkholder wrote:
> > > Apparently, On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:16:43AM +0300,
> > > 	Ruslan Ermilov said words to the effect of;
> > > 
> > > > A similar change would be in order for sparc64.  Patch is
> > > > attached, please review.  The net effect is that we save
> > > > huge CPU times in release.9 and do not create the useless
> > > > boot.flp floppy image (the sparc64/mkisoimages.sh script
> > > > doesn't need it).
> > > 
> > > 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.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru_at_sunbay.com		Sunbay Software Ltd,
ru_at_FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer

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