Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 12:25:07 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i386/loader compiled with NOFORTH Message-ID: <3EAADD13.50207@acm.org> References: <20030425202941.GD28920@sunbay.com> <XFMail.20030425164921.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20030426110913.GB9189@sunbay.com>
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Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 04:49:21PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: >>Does bzip2 really buy us that much more space than >>gzip in this case? > > ... saves us 50-60K of space on 1.44MB floppies. People still use 1.44MB floppies? I don't even have floppy drives in my PCs anymore. Perhaps it's time to demote the boot floppies to second-class status. People who can't boot from CD-ROM don't need driver support for the newest, fanciest hardware in the installation kernel. For people that are using boot floppies to avoid downloading the CD-ROMs, maybe a "mini-boot CD" is a better choice. You can fit a lot more onto a 5MB CDROM than onto a pair of 1.44MB floppies. Tim
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