On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 08:03:58PM +1000, Duraid Madina wrote: > 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? Ah. > 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. ;) I have. Notice that AMD64 systems don't do EFI. -- -- David (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)Received on Sun May 04 2003 - 08:03:44 UTC
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