Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/utils/sysinst

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost>]

Luke Mewburn <lukem%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:
> The reason that the i386 floppy build has a 2 disk limit is because
> we use the "2.88MB floppy emulation" method of booting CD-ROMs.
> Thus, we can't just crank the size up arbitrarily because that
> will break those images.
>
> There has been work recently to support booting off a CD-ROM
> that doesn't use this "2.88MB floppy emulation" mode.
> Once that's in production (if it's not already),

It is in -current. There is nothing preventing us from using it any
time we like. Thus, there is no point in sweating to keep to two
floppies.

The trick here, by the way, is that for a CD image, you now want to
put the kernel that gets loaded onto the floppies onto the CD for
direct boot, rather than the disk image.

Perry