Subject: Re: buildfloppies.sh: Image is 3387 bytes (3 KB) too big to fit on
To: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: tech-install
Date: 05/09/2006 03:52:14
On Mon, 8 May 2006, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> So close.  "dev" and "ls" seem to be broken, by the way.  "boot 
> cd0a:i386/binary/kernel/netbsd-GENERIC.gz" actually spins the CDROM (as does 
> cd0d:...), but says "No file found...".  Was that supposed to work?

No, and it was brought up before.
Someone even posted a patch, but I didn't get it to work.
Feel free to dig the archives and work on that, I'd appreciate it!


> It occurs to me that anyone who wants to work on this might need to actually 
> build a release, so again, what to toss out?  IMO, "bad144" stands out as the 
> most useless thing on the list, and "bootfloppy" and "bootfloppy-com" just 
> fit without it, but it's not big enough to buy us much time before this 
> happens again.

See my reply to Garrett's mail.


  - Hubert