From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 14 20:14:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from afs.itc.keio.ac.jp (afs.itc.keio.ac.jp [131.113.212.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33EB737B502 for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 20:14:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 9526 invoked from network); 15 Oct 2000 03:14:23 -0000 Received: from pppb60.yk.rim.or.jp (HELO localhost.FromTo.Cc) (202.247.186.160) by afs.itc.keio.ac.jp with SMTP; 15 Oct 2000 03:14:23 -0000 Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 12:14:19 +0900 Message-ID: <86aec6iyno.wl@ringo.FromTo.Cc> From: Tatsumi Hosokawa To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Our kernel just got too big again. :) In-Reply-To: In your message of "Sat, 14 Oct 2000 13:57:07 -0700 (PDT)" References: <53339.971556879@winston.osd.bsdi.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/1.1.0 (Overjoyed) SEMI/1.13.7 (Awazu) FLIM/1.13.2 (Kasanui) MULE XEmacs/21.1 (patch 9) (Canyonlands) (i386--freebsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.13.7 - "Awazu") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At Sat, 14 Oct 2000 13:57:07 -0700 (PDT), Matthew Jacob wrote: > > I had asked for a 3rd floppy earlier that we could put f/w images and other > drivers on. Now that we have a mostly loadable system, it strikes me that this > would be an excellent time to trim down the GENERIC to the common denominator > per-platform and then have compressed driver images available on a 3rd floppy > if people need them. It's a nice idea, but this means that boot.flp can exceed 2.88MB limit. As far as I know, the maximum size of boot image of El-Torito bootable CD-ROM is 2.88MB. When I install from CD-ROM, I have to enable ATAPI or SCSI drivers first, and then load Network dirvers and so on. When I install from the net, I have to enable Ethernet, PLIP or PPP drivers first, and then load ATAPI or SCSI drivers and so on. Currently, sysinstall supports two types of install media: local media and remote media. Boot.flp should be capable of loading drivers from the install media. Local media installation: Disk1-1: kernel, atapi + scsi drivers Disk2: sysinstall and utilities Disk3: driver disk Remote media installation: Disk1-2: kernel, network drivers Disk2: sysinstall and utilities Disk3: driver disk I think that disk 2 and 3 can be shared by them. Sysinstall have to ask user about installation media first, and then get compressed *.ko modules from the installation media. P.S.: Japanese/Korean boot.flp for 4.1.1 will be available in a few days (test version is available at http://people.freebsd.org/~hosokawa/boot-ja/), and I believe that it can be ported to -current easily, but it needs pty support in the Disk1 currently.... -- --------------------------- Tatsumi Hosokawa hosokawa@itc.keio.ac.jp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message