Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/i386/floppies

[Luke Mewburn <lukem%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 02:02:09AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
  | In article <20031218004422.885BC2DA1D%cvs.netbsd.org@localhost>,
  | Luke Mewburn <lukem%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
  | >
  | >Module Name:       src
  | >Committed By:      lukem
  | >Date:              Thu Dec 18 00:44:22 UTC 2003
  | >
  | >Modified Files:
  | >   src/distrib/i386/floppies/bootfloppy-big: Makefile
  | >   src/distrib/i386/floppies/bootfloppy-laptop-big: Makefile
  | >   src/distrib/i386/floppies/common: Makefile.bootfloppy
  | >
  | >Log Message:
  | >Pad all floppy images to the floppy size.
  | >Requested by Jason Thorpe in [port-i386/23785]
  | 
  | I am not sure if I like that because it slows down writing the last floppy,
  | but I can live with it.

Some floppy writing programs probably require padding (at least to a
floppy track boundary) anyway, and we weren't doing that either.

In any case, it's seems like a trivial issue to worry about an extra
20 seconds in writing the last floppy when it takes so long to boot
from the damn things anyway.