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Date:      Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:14:01 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kern.flp blown out again
Message-ID:  <20010913171401.E46156@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20010913040343.A8280@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@freebsd.org on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:03:43AM -0700
References:  <20010913014332U.jkh@freebsd.org> <20010913105806.B45320@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20010913020057E.jkh@freebsd.org> <20010913112640.C45320@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20010913040343.A8280@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:03:43AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:26:40AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > Until you have to leave something essential out and then we are SOL. For
> > alpha I could think of only supporting CD installs, and drop floppies
> > altogether. This follows DECs/CPQs convention of only supporting OS installs
> 
> Only after someone spends the time to fix src/release/Makefile to produce
> a boot image intended for CDROM booting.  There is no reason we cannot
> have a 5 MB CD-ROM boot kernel image on the Alpha.  Thus we would not

<nod>

> need to cut anything out.  JKH signed up to do this (poke, poke :-)), but
> that has yet to happen.  Do you know what the size limit is for the
> CD-ROM boot image on Alpha(SRM)?

I don't know of any size limit. Tru64 install CDs have 10MB (or so) kernels
on them.

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