Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 13:31:27 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@acm.org> Cc: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com>, Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>, FreeBSD Chat List <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Just lost one to Linux. Compaq server support. Message-ID: <20011221132742.L16958-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200112212050.fBLKoiH20562@bmah.dyndns.org>
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On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > There's a bit of a problem with the snapshot generation at the moment > (in a nutshell, the GENERIC kernel has grown too large to fit on a > floppy disk). Various alternatives have been discussed on the -stable > list, from pruning some drivers out of GENERIC to using bzip2 for the > kernel instead of gzip. Yeah, this needs to get fixed, certainly before > the first 4.5 relase candidate. :-p why not maintain 2 different kern.flp images? if you need a special driver, there's no reason you can't just have a larger image for cdrom booting, and a slightly stripped down one for the floppy. how about 3? load spare drivers as kernel modules off of a 3rd floppy disk.. > > When I did 4.4 Release I just got the Image and then burnt a CD. > > http://snapshots.jp.freebsd.org/ has ISO images, but they're probably > having the same problem with the GENERIC kernel. i'm assuming this means that the large image is to big even for booting from the cdrom? -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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