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From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
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Subject: Re: More nits
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
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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