From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 21 13:31:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (caustic.org [64.163.147.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FB9037B416 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 13:31:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBLLVR315661; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 13:31:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 13:31:27 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" X-X-Sender: To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: Francisco Reyes , Chris Dillon , FreeBSD Chat List Subject: Re: Just lost one to Linux. Compaq server support. In-Reply-To: <200112212050.fBLKoiH20562@bmah.dyndns.org> Message-ID: <20011221132742.L16958-100000@localhost> X-Ignore: This statement isn't supposed to be read by you X-TO-THE-FBI-CIA-AND-NSA: HI! HOW YA DOIN? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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