Re: Floppyless release build of sparc64

2003-07-25 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:50:10PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: boot.flp is actually useful on sparc64 because you can dd it to a disk from solaris and then boot off it to install. I'm happy with having the option of not building it if it saves time but please make it an option.

Re: Floppyless release build of sparc64

2003-07-25 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 01:39:14PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:50:10PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: boot.flp is actually useful on sparc64 because you can dd it to a disk from solaris and then boot off it to install. I'm happy with having the option of

Re: Floppyless release build of sparc64

2003-07-24 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 07:07:30PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:57:58AM -0400, Jake Burkholder wrote: Apparently, On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:16:43AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov said words to the effect of; A similar change would be in order for sparc64. Patch

Re: Floppyless release build of sparc64

2003-07-24 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:55:10AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 07:07:30PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:57:58AM -0400, Jake Burkholder wrote: Apparently, On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:16:43AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov said words to the effect

Floppyless release build of sparc64

2003-07-23 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
A similar change would be in order for sparc64. Patch is attached, please review. The net effect is that we save huge CPU times in release.9 and do not create the useless boot.flp floppy image (the sparc64/mkisoimages.sh script doesn't need it). On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 10:53:53PM -0700, Ruslan

Re: Floppyless release build of sparc64

2003-07-23 Thread Jake Burkholder
Apparently, On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:16:43AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov said words to the effect of; A similar change would be in order for sparc64. Patch is attached, please review. The net effect is that we save huge CPU times in release.9 and do not create the useless boot.flp

Re: Floppyless release build of sparc64

2003-07-23 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:57:58AM -0400, Jake Burkholder wrote: Apparently, On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:16:43AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov said words to the effect of; A similar change would be in order for sparc64. Patch is attached, please review. The net effect is that we save huge