Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc/distrib/macppc/floppies/ramdisk
To: R.o.s.s H.a.r.v.e.y <ross@ghs.com>
From: James Chacon <jchacon@genuity.net>
List: source-changes
Date: 12/10/2001 16:13:05
I agree and can easily split these into multiple floppies.

However I don't have a macppc with a floppy drive on it so I'll have to round
up some testers.

James

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>Ahh, one more reason to go to multiple-disks: you have to do it
>eventually, and when you do, you will be really mad at yourself
>for living without those utilities for no reason during the
>interim, and you will have to go to work to put them back.
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>There is no real advantage to keeping the install on one disk.
>The second disk reads really fast because it's small. (If you
>had any chance of fitting via utility removal, disk 2 will be
>tiny. If it's big, you had no choice anyway.)
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>And like Perry, I've also used ed(1) many times on installs. But
>the real point isn't ed(1), it's that the fact that you have
>overflowed means that a multiple-disk install -- which has no
>disadvantages anyway -- is inevitable.
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>	r.o.s.s
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