Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 15:26:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Cc: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. Message-ID: <199509302226.PAA01200@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199509301848.OAA05922@etinc.com> from "dennis" at Sep 30, 95 02:48:25 pm
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> > >>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. and it already isn't.. the kernel on the floppy is compiled seperatly, using a config file automatically derived from GENERIC.. certainly we can generate a couple of different boot floppies, by just duplicating that code in the Makefile and changing what gets deleted from the GENERIC config.. > > 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 > >
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