From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 2 21:35:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85EC537B401 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2003 21:35:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail13.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6810943FBD for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2003 21:35:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 6251 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2003 04:35:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender )encrypted SMTP for ; 3 Aug 2003 04:35:23 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (laptop.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.4]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h734ZL9s011001; Sun, 3 Aug 2003 00:35:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.4 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20030803014647.GD98015@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 00:35:42 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: "David O'Brien" cc: re@freebsd.org cc: Peter Wemm cc: Jake Burkholder cc: Ruslan Ermilov cc: alpha@freebsd.org cc: Scott Long cc: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: miniboot.iso (was: Re: Floppies for ALPHA) X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 04:35:29 -0000 On 03-Aug-2003 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. It has GENERIC plus modules plus kernel.debug for CURRENT snapshots, not BOOTMFS. >> 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"?? Because it uses a stripped down kernel with less support, and why go through all the heartache to limit it's size when you can just use a stock generic kernel? T DAVID PLZ 2 B RELAX K PLZ THX -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/