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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
cc: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: X for install 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Jan 1996 13:37:00 +1030."
             <199601030307.NAA06495@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> 
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 19:21:13 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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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