Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 14:49:02 -1000 (HST) From: David Langford <langfod@maui.net> To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Cc: phk@critter.tfs.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Building a "custom" release of 2.1.0 Message-ID: <199601170049.OAA18876@hula.maui.net> In-Reply-To: <199601161939.UAA17005@keltia.freenix.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at Jan 16, 96 08:39:03 pm
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Hmmm. If anyone has seen the install program for NeXTstep you might notice that it adds devices drivers off disk after asking what devices you have. Would it be possible to go LKM happy with a kernel and ask what drivers to use? Just a thought. David Langford langfod@maui.com >It seems that Poul-Henning Kamp said: >> Yes, I have stayed out of the 2.1 business, since I don't have time/machines >> to test that too. I hope we can get the crucial changes into 2.1 to make >> it boot on 4M machines, but otherwise it's too bad. > >I know NFS install is nice but I think we can get lot of RAM without >it. The GENERIC I used for the laptop has not SCSI, no NFS, no >Ethernet. Doing a set of floppies for IDE only systems would cut down the >kernel maybe enough for most 4 MB machines. > >The release/Makefile is not too bad, once you understand it better :-) >-- >Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net > FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #1: Wed Jan 10 02:23:42 MET 1996 >
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