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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
Subject: Re: syscons driver
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>It seems that David E. O'Brien said:
>> over the X server and bloated sysinstall.  The most often compaired OS
>> installs are MS-NT and OS/2.  MS-NT has _3_ 1.44meg floppies of drivers

>Ever seen a Caldera (REDHAT based) install ? You get *75* boot disks on the
>CD-ROM... And we were complaining about providing a third boot floppy <g>

This is from doing more with compile-time options.  It takes 128 kernels
to provide full coverage of just 7 compile-time options.

Bruce