From owner-freebsd-libh Fri Oct 27 6:50:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Received: from mailout06.sul.t-online.com (mailout06.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFAAE37B479 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 06:50:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fmrl03.sul.t-online.de by mailout06.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 13p9tW-0001SB-01; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 15:50:06 +0200 Received: from neutron.cichlids.com (520050424122-0001@[62.225.192.31]) by fmrl03.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 13p9tS-2HbuYyC; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 15:50:02 +0200 Received: from cichlids.cichlids.com (cichlids.cichlids.com [192.168.0.10]) by neutron.cichlids.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DC02AB91; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 15:52:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: by cichlids.cichlids.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2342514A5C; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 15:50:07 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 15:50:07 +0200 To: Tim Kientzle Cc: libh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BOF at BSDCon: FreeBSD Installer, Packages System Message-ID: <20001027155007.A42972@cichlids.cichlids.com> References: <7131.972327788@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <39F4A24B.F421AF5B@acm.org> <20001024185256.B92779@manta.mayn.de> <39F5D6CC.24A923C4@acm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <39F5D6CC.24A923C4@acm.org>; from kientzle@acm.org on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 11:37:00AM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 28 CA 4C 46 5B D3 A8 A8 E3 BA F3 4E 60 7D 7F X-PGP-at: finger alex@big.endian.de X-Verwirrung: Dieser Header dient der allgemeinen Verwirrung. From: alex@big.endian.de (Alexander Langer) X-Sender: 520050424122-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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