From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 30 11:45:52 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA11060 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 11:45:52 -0700 Received: from etinc.com (etinc-gw.new-york.net [165.254.13.209]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA11053 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 11:45:49 -0700 Received: from trumpet.etnet.com (trumpet.etnet.com [129.45.17.35]) by etinc.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA05922; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 14:48:25 -0400 Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 14:48:25 -0400 Message-Id: <199509301848.OAA05922@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Justin T. Gibbs" From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com 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. >-- It really shouldn't. I think that what is needed is a "bootload" kernel and a "generic" kernel. While its ok for the generic kernel to be large, the "bootload" should allow someone to load the system and compile (or load) a custom kernel, which can be much smaller. There's no reason why the generic kernel has to be used on the boot floppy. Dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25