From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Aug 3 14:39:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA15608 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 14:39:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from envy.ph.ed.ac.uk (envy.ph.ed.ac.uk [129.215.72.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA15568 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 14:38:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from broonie@cassiel.ddns.org) Received: from cassiel.ddns.org (dialup-109.publab.ed.ac.uk [129.215.38.109]) by envy.ph.ed.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id WAA24636 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 22:37:59 +0100 Received: (from broonie@localhost) by cassiel.ddns.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA26505; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 22:33:47 +0100 Message-ID: <19980803223346.A26455@tardis.ed.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 22:33:46 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Documentation on boot floppy References: <19980803000447.A17692@tardis.ed.ac.uk> <35C6255C.E63572CE@dal.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <35C6255C.E63572CE@dal.net>; from Studded on Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 02:02:20PM -0700 X-Cookie: You look tired. X-WWW-Homepage: http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 02:02:20PM -0700, Studded wrote: > Mark Brown wrote: > > It would be nice if the documentation on the boot floppy was avalible > > (more obviously?) from outside the floppy. > Can you provide more details as to what you mean by available? Exactly > what would you like to see? Keep in mind that every byte on the boot > floppy is precious, so the chances that the files can be duplicated in a > manner differently than they are now is small. They're there (I assume). The trouble is that any attempt to view them fails, apparently due to lack of memory. After kernel config, I have 1092K free. After that, any attempt to access the documentation (actually view a file) causes a "pid killed, out of swap space" message on tty2 and a complaint about being unable to open the file. Attempting to start a shell to look around the floppy simply caused a similar failure. What I would like to see is something on the web pages saying "here is the documentation on the floppy" (perhaps even "here are the contents of the floppy"). Either that, or providing a low-memory method for viewing the docs. Once my main system becomes idle, I will be able to boot that and take a look around. -- Mark Brown mailto:broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message