Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:59:50 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wilko@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: miniboot.iso (was: Re: Floppies for ALPHA) Message-ID: <XFMail.20030731135950.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030731094249.GB8699@sunbay.com>
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On 31-Jul-2003 Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 01:32:17PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: >> Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >> > If there's some interest, I could add the support for generating >> > miniboot.iso to release/Makefile. This would be extremely >> > useful for other platforms too, including i386. Just let me >> > know if there's a strong interest in this. >> > >> > >> > Cheers, >> >> This idea has intrigued me for a while. Feel free to prototype >> something! >> > OK, the attached (trivial) patch can be used to create the > miniboot.iso. Its contents is identical to what goes on the > miniinst.iso, except for NOT putting any distributions, docs, > and ports. Couple of comments (gee this looks exactly like my patch that does this. :)) - you don't need the symlink for the release name on the boot CD - call it bootonly.iso instead of miniboot.iso, but I think we've already agreed on this. - PC98 doesn't need this ISO image since it can't boot from CD. Hence the extra CD_BOOT related ifdef's in the patch I sent you. > Removing *.ko and kernel.debug from /boot/kernel gives 7M of > uncompressed, and 3M of compressed miniboot.iso image. The > patch does not remove them currently, adding one line would > do it. Anyone has a reason why these should not be removed? > One could think that the acpi.ko may be needed for IA64, but > it's already part of the GENERIC kernel. The kernel.debug is a feature of GENERIC having 'DEBUG=-g' in it. For releases, we turn that off, in which case the kernel.debug will automatically disappear. I would leave the modules around since not all modules are in GENERIC on all archs. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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