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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation.
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In article <199509301707.NAA12691@lakes> you write:
> Now, since we know the GENERIC kernel won't do that, can we at least
>have instructions on how to build the installation system so we
>can put a customer kernel (without all the drivers needed for
>the GENERIC case) on some installation floppies?

YES YES YES YES YES YES!

> And, yes, I know I can use the makefiles, etc... and build the floppies;
>etc...  but a more novice user would probably appreciate explicit instructions.

I've looked through the makefiles, and I'm not a novice user, and I just
gave up and installed on another system.

	1. The install floppy was broken if you couldn't control the
	   WD controller's sector mapping (please fix this... real
	   geometry actually MEANS something with older WD drives?).
	2. The install floppy didn't have the WD7000 driver in it.
	3. The install floppy's AHA1542 driver didn't work on the CP.
	4. fdisk is broken, so I couldn't install by hand.

So it's not just 4MB users who need this.

Document how you build an install floppy, and people will do the 4M install
for you.