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Re: sysinst with Lua support
Am 03.11.13 16:46, schrieb Izumi Tsutsui:
>> Some ports use a floppy format that allows the image to be split
>> over many floppies. The format is called ustarfs, and is based on
>> a split tar archive. Some of the code to build the floppies is
>> in src/distrib/common/Makefile.tarfloppy.
>>
>> Those ports that do not already use Makefile.tarfloppy could be
>> changed to do so. The ports that already use Makefile.tarfloppy
>> might need the number of floppies to be incremented.
>
> The problem is not so simple:
> - atari ports also supports "loadbsd" command for T-OS (Atari's native OS)
> and it loads kernel from MS-DOS format floppy (no way to split)
> - sparc ports doesn't have ustarfs floppy support (yet)
> - some ports has restriction of kernel size (i.e. ramdisk size),
> not floppy size
For such ports, could sysinst be put on an extra floppy? I.e. the
bootable floppy would would, after booting, output something like "put
floppy B in drive A. Press any key to continue.",
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