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From: David Langford <langfod@maui.net>
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Subject: Re: Building a "custom" release of 2.1.0
To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 14:49:02 -1000 (HST)
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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
>