From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 22 11:07:29 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA25300 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:07:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from roma.coe.ufrj.br (roma.coe.ufrj.br [146.164.53.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA25291 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:07:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonny@jonny.eng.br) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by roma.coe.ufrj.br (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA19846; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 17:06:35 -0200 (EDT) (envelope-from jonny) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199901221906.RAA19846@roma.coe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: boot.flp versions In-Reply-To: <90520.916884844@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 20, 1999 6:14: 4 pm" To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 17:06:35 -0200 (EDT) Cc: dhw@whistle.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, rdawes@ucsd.edu X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG #define quoting(Jordan K. Hubbard) // All: Sorry the boot.flp has been broken for this long, but I've had // other distractions lately. I will make it work once more, somehow // or other, and just keep your eyes on current.freebsd.org over // the next few days. When it returns to 1.44MB in size again, give // it a try. :) Another problem I had with that snap here is that it does not install on a machine with 8M RAM. It started installing, but stopped in random places during file copy. It did work after I remade the kern.flp with only the devices I had (thus, using less memory). I noticed that swapping was disabled in the BOOTMFS kernel. Is this really necessary ? How hard is to add an option "use this swap partition during install", or even a "create and use a vn swap file in /usr/tmp during install" ? Or should I just assume 8M RAM machines are not any more supported ? Jonny PS: Wow !!! The new loader made dealing with boot.flp a very easy task. :) -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis M.Sc. Student jonny@jonny.eng.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro "This .sig is not meant to be politically correct." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message