Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 20:15:38 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: Wilko Bulte <wilko@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: miniboot.iso Message-ID: <3F2C704A.6000004@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20030803014647.GD98015@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200307211915.h6LJFPJY054212@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030721214042.GA563@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3F1C6216.3020006@freebsd.org> <20030721220419.GA909@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3F1C6633.5070009@freebsd.org> <20030722070239.GA2687@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20030729191917.GA66399@sunbay.com> <3F26CBC1.7030704@freebsd.org> <20030731094249.GB8699@sunbay.com> <20030803014647.GD98015@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 12:42:49PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > >>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. >> >>The uncompressed size for i386 is 46M, bzip2(1) compressed size >>is 16M, which I think many people can afford. (The size of the > > > What in the world is on this thing to be 46MB?!?!?!? All 3 .flp's added > together aren't this large. > > > >>Jake, a question for you: can this miniboot.iso image be used on >>sparc64 like on Alpha (as Wilko demonstrated) instead of the ugly >>boot.flp image? > > > Why is making boot.flp "ugly"?? > > It looks like the kernel and kmods are being built with '-g'. When I 'strip -x' /boot/kernel, it shinks from 47MB to 21MB. Taking out kernel.debug drops another 5MB. Can anyone say why we build the release bits with '-g'? I'd sure like to save that extra space on the mini-iso, and have that extra space for packages on the full ISO. Scott
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