From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 30 11:26:59 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA10417 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 11:26:59 -0700 Received: from aslan.cdrom.com (aslan.cdrom.com [192.216.223.142]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA10411 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 11:26:57 -0700 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by aslan.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA29816; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 11:26:20 -0700 Message-Id: <199509301826.LAA29816@aslan.cdrom.com> X-Authentication-Warning: aslan.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Bruce Evans , julian@ref.tfs.com, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 30 Sep 1995 09:49:18 PDT." <20502.812479758@time.cdrom.com> Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 11:26:20 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >All I can say is this: If we can get things back to below the 4MB >boundry then that will be fine and dandy, but we WILL be back here >again. We really need to get the dynamic device driver issue >on the road if we're to ever have any hope at all in running on >small memory machines for the forseeable future. Perhaps one >or more of the last 4MB hold-outs will see necessity as the >mother of invention and start working on this? :) > > Jordan Fixing LKMs (something even people with more than 4MB want) should take care of this. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================