From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 15 9:30: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6117937B401 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 09:30:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7113F43EB2 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 09:30:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBFHTqJe039199; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 18:29:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: walt Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 80386 out of GENERIC From: phk@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 15 Dec 2002 08:43:06 PST." <3DFCB11A.4090900@hotmail.com> Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 18:29:52 +0100 Message-ID: <39198.1039973392@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3DFCB11A.4090900@hotmail.com>, walt writes: >phk@FreeBSD.ORG wrote: > >> Because few if any 80386 computers have the ram it takes to run sysinstall. > >Was sysinstall around when 386 was new? Just curious what's changed since >then to make it bigger. sysinstall arrived in the 486 days. Lots of junk has been added since, but I think most of the bloating is from added kernel stuff, IPv6, PCcard, PCI, USB and so on. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message