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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