Re: Floppy Support

From: Duraid Madina <duraid_at_octopus.com.au>
Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 20:03:58 +1000
David O'Brien wrote:
> On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 10:23:52AM +1000, Duraid Madina wrote:
> 
>>The fact that FreeBSD insists on fitting its kernel onto floppies has so 
>>far prevented me from installing it on my not terribly new hardware.
> 
> How has FreeBSD prevented you from installing because we fit the kernel
> on floppies?

The snapshot server is basically wasting CPU cycles, and has been for a 
couple of weeks now. Support for my hard disk controllers has been 
checked in, but here I sit, waiting. Why? Because we fit the kernel on 
floppies.

> Don't worry that won't happen -- AMD has committed to the current type of
> BIOS and plans to NOT switch to EFI.

You haven't used an EFI box yet, have you. ;)

	Duraid
Received on Sun May 04 2003 - 01:04:10 UTC

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