From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 31 10:59:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCB6B37B41B for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:59:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail9.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.209]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 997D743FCB for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:59:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 9806 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2003 17:59:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender )encrypted SMTP for ; 31 Jul 2003 17:59:33 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6VHxUGI071808; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:59:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.4 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20030731094249.GB8699@sunbay.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:59:50 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Ruslan Ermilov cc: re@freebsd.org cc: Peter Wemm cc: Jake Burkholder cc: alpha@freebsd.org cc: Scott Long cc: Wilko Bulte Subject: RE: miniboot.iso (was: Re: Floppies for ALPHA) X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:59:38 -0000 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 <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/