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Date:      Sun, 1 Oct 1995 05:40:41 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        glen@winternet.com, hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation.
Message-ID:  <199509301940.FAA12703@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>>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

>Let's hold on to this thought for a moment: what is preventing this
>from happening *today*?  For the moment, forget the additional
>problems of doing this in the installation process.

150000 lines of old drivers that don't support hot probing, attaching
or detaching.

Bruce



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