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Subject: Re: boot disk....
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 12:09:45 +1030 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <199510302342.AAA09072@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Oct 31, 95 00:42:25 am
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J Wunsch stands accused of saying:
> > And tell me, how the heck am I going to read that if I can't get the
> > *#$(*@ system to boot in the first place?
> 
> By documentation provided along with the boot image file.  For example
> the excellent handbook. :)
>
> It's impossible to put the entire README into the bootstrapper anyway.

No, but it _is_ possible to add a little intelligence, and a little 
more onscreen context can only help.
 
> I'm really afraid of too much bloat here.

How may MB for your DM, Jo"rg?  I can imagine the bootstrap module might make
it to 150-200K if we go _completely_ overboard.

That's what, 200msec to load?  If it has nothing to do, the timeout's not
going to be any longer than the current bootstrap; the code won't be anywhere
once it's finished, and hell, the kernel may even _lose_ some size.

> cheers, J"org

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