From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Oct 31 17:48:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA20517 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 17:48:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs) Received: from coconut.itojun.org (root@coconut.itojun.org [210.160.95.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA20494; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 17:48:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from itojun@itojun.org) Received: from localhost (itojun@localhost.itojun.org [127.0.0.1]) by coconut.itojun.org (8.8.5/3.6Wbeta6) with ESMTP id KAA28546; Sat, 1 Nov 1997 10:47:50 +0900 (JST) To: dg@root.com cc: "John S. Dyson" , bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, elh@svic.com In-reply-to: dg's message of Fri, 31 Oct 1997 16:40:21 PST. <199711010040.QAA25276@implode.root.com> X-Template-Reply-To: itojun@itojun.org X-Template-Return-Receipt-To: itojun@itojun.org X-PGP-Fingerprint: F8 24 B4 2C 8C 98 57 FD 90 5F B4 60 79 54 16 E2 Subject: Re: 2.2.5 installation bug on 1gig machines From: Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh Date: Sat, 01 Nov 1997 10:47:49 +0900 Message-ID: <28542.878348869@coconut.itojun.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The problem with this is that the memory is already sized before >'userconfig' is called (it needs to be that way for various reasons). This >basically means that we can't limit the memory during an install. You'll >have to physically pull out some of the memory and/or replace it with >lower density SIMMs until you've finished the installation and built a >customized kernel. Current userconfig menu in the kernel is very nice (I was surprised when I saw this for the first time), but I believe it is good to have some device configuration menu/option/whatever in /boot. (on bsdi we can disable devices that way. Also, /boot will look for the default settings in /etc/boot.default. In this way the settings can be kept the same over kernel reconfiguration) itojun