From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 22 11:11:25 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA26126 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:11:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA26121 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:11:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA40757; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:10:29 -0800 (PST) To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis cc: dhw@whistle.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, rdawes@ucsd.edu Subject: Re: boot.flp versions In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 22 Jan 1999 17:06:35 -0200." <199901221906.RAA19846@roma.coe.ufrj.br> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:10:29 -0800 Message-ID: <40753.917032229@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK, in retrospect, turning off swapping was a mistake. I should have thought about this a bit more before blindly accepting the suggestion from Andrzej. ;) Fixed. - Jordan > #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