Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 19:21:13 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X for install Message-ID: <2046.820639273@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Jan 1996 13:37:00 %2B1030." <199601030307.NAA06495@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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> How small can a kernel be made and still have all the disk drivers > in it? We'd want all the SCSI disk drivers, wdc, sio, sc, UFS, > CD9660 and a fixed 8M memory limit. No swap stuff, no networking, > no quotas. I'm not sure we would. Consider how NT does it - they have one disk that contains the kernel bootstrap and another disk that contains drivers, each of which it loads, tries and then tosses out again if it's not needed. I'd be willing to go to 2 or more boot floppies again if it were for something as nicely generic as that.. :-) Jordan
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