Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 15:50:07 +0200 From: alex@big.endian.de (Alexander Langer) To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> Cc: libh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BOF at BSDCon: FreeBSD Installer, Packages System Message-ID: <20001027155007.A42972@cichlids.cichlids.com> In-Reply-To: <39F5D6CC.24A923C4@acm.org>; from kientzle@acm.org on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 11:37:00AM -0700 References: <7131.972327788@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <39F4A24B.F421AF5B@acm.org> <20001024185256.B92779@manta.mayn.de> <39F5D6CC.24A923C4@acm.org>
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Thus spake Tim Kientzle (kientzle@acm.org): > > Together with the Qt libs its even about 8 MB (stripped, but not > > compressed) > > It's ok, though, since it includes stuff for everything. > No, 8MB is not ok. The initial system needs to be installable > from floppy disk, and a floppy disk is 1.44MB. That leaves two > options: Yes. But a floppy-install will not include the Qt library, and gzipped it's only some 1.2 MB. > b) Not include sysinstall on the installation boot floppies. > Instead, pull it as the first step in the install process > (e.g., read it from CD, over the network, etc.) Yeah, that's the proposed way. I wanted to to that already, but had problems to gunzip and execute the new binary. The libh/bin/setup dir is what you want. The same is for the 8 MB RAM guys: The TVision-only one is smaller. Alex -- cat: /home/alex/.sig: No such file or directory To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message
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