Subject: Re: i386 install media status ?
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/28/2006 19:49:41
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 06:42:54PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 06:55:38PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > so what's the status of the i386 install media ? Are we stil limited by
> > the 2,88K floppy emulation for CD boot ?
> > 
> > Thanks to Quentin I think we can now safely add acpi+ioapic to INSTALL
> > (it can be disabled by boot -c) but we may hit the size limit again ...
> 
> Do another ramdisk for the INSTALL.ACPI kernel, without the 2.8 GB
> floppy limit - the 'floppy' image might be useful for copying to a
> USB stick....

How will one boot INSTALL.ACPI from a cdrom instead of INSTALL ?
I think the acpi-enbaled install kernel has to be the default (now that we can
properly disable acpi via boot -c it should not cause problems).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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