Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 09:14:57 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot disk.... Message-ID: <199510310814.JAA10996@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199510310139.MAA02717@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Oct 31, 95 12:09:45 pm
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As Michael Smith wrote: > > > 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. It's not the question of DM/US$/... here. If i have to wait for too long until the boot prompt appears, it's annoying. My test machine is a 386sx/16, and FreeBSD is still not bloated enough :) to run fast enough on that class of machines (with `fast' being scaled to the feeling that's usual when using such a slow beast). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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