Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 22:49:01 +0200 From: Adrian Steinmann <ast@marabu.ch> To: carlo@vis.ethz.ch (Carlo Dapor) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fat kernel, needs dieting (again :-) Message-ID: <200108022049.WAA14916@marabu.marabu.ch>
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Someone said on stable@freebsd.org: > The other day a guy (sorry I forgot who) says that That was me, <ast@marabu.ch>, see also http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=29272 and the copy of the earlier message below. But carlo@vis.ethz.ch (Carlo Dapor) questions this: And top(1) just works fine ? When I gzip(1)ed kernels in the past, everything worked just fine, except for top(1) and IIRC ps, which could not access some structure - sorry for being very vague here, it has been some time. We are refering to a kgziped LOADER (/boot/loader) not kernel! The loader on the boot floppy can be kgzip-ed safely and the pr=29272 above has the one-line patch enclosed. Maybe obrien@FreeBSD.org who was working on this might incorporate this patch too, saving us another 60k on boot floppies? Thanks Adrian PS. This was the old message: Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 11:30:05 +0200 To: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> Subject: Re: SNAPSHOTS-no new -STABLE snapshot since Jul 21. Why? cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Chris BeHanna <behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net> wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, stuart nichols wrote: > I've got a couple of tranisient machines to rebuild, but > there have been no successful snapshot builds on releng4 > since Jul 21. (Shortly before that (Jul 17th-19th?) the > packages option from /stand/sysinstall caused a core dump.) > > What is keeping the snapshots from being created? IIUC (If I Understand Correctly), the boot floppy images are too large to fit on a floppy; therefore, "make release" fails. I recently sent in a patch for this (compress loader, rm /boot/boot? files) - see: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=29272 seems like someone's working on it. Adrian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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