Subject: Re: Switching i386/amd64 to native CD-based installation?
To: Havard Eidnes <he@netbsd.org>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/28/2005 11:36:31
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:30:45AM +0200, Havard Eidnes wrote:
> Some people have spoken up and said that they use this image for
> booting from memory sticks.  For that use it should not matter if we
> keep the image but increase it's maximum size.  We just will no longer
> be able to use this image for prep'ing an ISO image bootable using
> floppy emulation.

Agreed.
Note also that for memory sticks (etc.) the reworked install stuff that will
go onto the bootable CD could be easily used (i.e. the contents of the ISO
image, with biosboot bootloader).

Martin