Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 05:57:13 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel size Message-ID: <9643.809873833@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Aug 1995 22:42:52 PDT." <199508310542.WAA01965@ref.tfs.com>
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> I've been playing around trying to make a bootable fixit disk today.. > the over-all lesson is: > we need to shrink our bloated stuff :) > the -current tree can't build a 'boot' floppy at this time.. Well, we can't build a fixit floppy no since nobody has gone in and tried to reasonably trim down the list of things jammed into fixit. If you look at how boot.flp is built and work backward, you should be able to make a fixit floppy again and we've been meaning to do it it's just low-prio. > I guess we can still compress the binaries in the mfs filesystem > which would leave them still compressed when the kernel is decompressed, Already done! The crunched binary is, in turn, compressed. > I think that inevitably we are going to have to go back to a 2 floppy boot.. > the more device drivers we have the harder it's going to be to fit them in.. > I think we will have a "I'll boot to MFS" floppy, and then we may need > another floppy with all the loadable modules.. > "place the 'drivers' floppy in A:" I think this is also probably inevitable, I've just been putting off the work of ripping up release/Makefile again until I've finished my changes for making the one-boot-floppy-per-language happen. Jordan
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