On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 12:17:06AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 05:06:17PM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:59:04 +0100
> > Pavel Cahyna <pavel@NetBSD.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > Are we afraid of BIOSes which can't
> > > boot from "no emulation" bootable CDs and require the "emulated
> > > floppy" method?
> > > 
> > That's the argument that's been used in the past.
> 
> I'd also suggest that there may be old systems that won't boot with
> the acpi kernel, or need support for old devices.  In both cases its
> seems sane to keep a sub 2.8MB install kernel+ramdisk.

Why?  We can load such a kernel from multiple 1.44MB floppies.  2.88MB
floppies are extremely rare, *except* as emulated by old-style CD boot,
which we don't need any more.