From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 16 20:43:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA13942 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 20:43:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from generic.gnsnet.com (generic.dialup.inch.com [204.253.24.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA13935 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 20:43:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from flatline.gnsnet.com (trangmar@flatline.gnsnet.com [193.195.19.35]) by generic.gnsnet.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA02168; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 23:40:59 -0500 Received: (from trangmar@localhost) by flatline.gnsnet.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id XAA01952; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 23:37:38 -0500 Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 23:37:37 -0500 (EST) From: Rob Trangmar To: David Langford cc: Ollivier Robert , phk@critter.tfs.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Building a "custom" release of 2.1.0 In-Reply-To: <199601170049.OAA18876@hula.maui.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Thats a really nice idea, but kind of requires loadable device drivers which FreeBSD doesn't have (yet?). RobT On Tue, 16 Jan 1996, David Langford wrote: > 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 > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Trangmar trangmar@gnsnet.com NeXT Mail/Mime O.K Tel: (212) 7600225 Fax: (212) 6294314 "In cyberspace no-one can hear you farkel" -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-