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From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Subject: Re: boot.flp versions
In-Reply-To: <199901221906.RAA19846@roma.coe.ufrj.br> from Joao Carlos Mendes Luis at "Jan 22, 99 05:06:35 pm"
To: jonny@jonny.eng.br (Joao Carlos Mendes Luis)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 21:52:07 +0100 (CET)
Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, dhw@whistle.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG,
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As Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote...
> #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 ?

What grew so drastically that the memory requirements grew from 5 Mbytes
minimum memory to > 8Mb? (remember all those discussions when 4Mb became
too small to run the install floppy?)

Wilko
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