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Date:      Tue, 3 Oct 95 13:34 MEZ
From:      garyj@rks32.pcs.dec.com (Gary Jennejohn)
To:        hackers%freebsd.org@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation.
Message-ID:  <m0t06Ye-0005OqC@rks32.pcs.dec.com>

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Joerg Wunsch writes:

> As Brian Tao wrote:
> > 
> > > Very simple: somebody actually _has_to_implement_it_!
> > 
> >     Delete out the extraneous driver lines in the kernel config file,
> > rebuild the boot floppy, and try it out on a 4-meg machine to see if
> > it boots?  Am I missing something?
> 
> Yes, you are.  Where's the diff to drop it in? :-)

I've been playing around with this and have discovered that with a few
trivial changes in /sys/i386/boot/kzipboot/Makefile and
/usr/src/usr.bin/kzip.c it's easy to stick the decompress code at the
end of the compressed image. I tested my changes with a GENERIC kernel
(the one from the 2.1.0-950922-SNAP), loaded at 2MB instead of 3MB, and it
worked. I'm now trying to generate a real boot kernel with an MFS
file system so that I can do a realistic test. After this I'll post
diffs (-c), unless someone beats me to it.

It would simplify and speed things up enormously if I could just grab
an uncompressed kernel with MFS already in it from somplace. Jordan,
got one laying around somewhere that I can get at (freefall) ?

> 
> That's what i was about to say: Jordan and David have enough items on
> their plate.  So if they don't have time to implement it, somebody has
> to deal with it and make a proposal that's not only verbal, but
> accompanied by a diff -u output that would cleanly drop into the tree,
> so all they have to do is reviewing it and take care for not breaking
> anything else.
> 
> Guess why i've been running a "make release" last sunday...? :)  But no
> promises.

Same here. I can't seem to get the hang of making a release :(

Gary J (gj@pcs.dec.com)



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