Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 03:08:23 +1100 (EST) From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: grog@lemis.de, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More nits Message-ID: <199511041608.DAA26796@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> In-Reply-To: <199511041535.QAA00989@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Nov 4, 95 04:35:20 pm
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> Btw., this > 4 MB requirement is just only for an installation, due to > the GENERIC kernel, and the built-in MFS the installer runs on. I've > been succesfully booting a FreeBSD 2.0.5 kernel on a machine with 1820 > KB RAM. :-) Perhaps there is an opportunity here .. the current installation has no mechanism (that I know of) to use anything other than a GENERIC kernel. If this were possible, we could use another non-memory impaired machine to generate a suitably customised (and much smaller) kernel for the ultimate target, michael
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