Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 09:44:05 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer), hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. Message-ID: <20482.812479445@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 Sep 1995 11:47:08 BST." <199509301047.LAA20453@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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> For some machines (e.g. laptops) it is too expensive to add memory, > often they use special modules or just don't have the slots. I > think we can manage by making it not too hard for 4MB users to > build their own boot floppy (on a guest system, if it cannot be > supplied as default). Alternately, and I'm not fundamentally opposed to this, if someone out there wants to sit down and build a boot floppy that WILL work in 4MB by ripping some large piece of its component anatomy out, well, I certainly won't stand in their way and will even go as far as sticking it on the CDROM and the FTP areas with a little note to the effect that it's to be considered a solution of last resort for 4MB folks. I just don't want to have to go down that road myself - I have too many larger install issues to worry about between now and next Sunday. Jordan
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