Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 13:56:30 -0800 From: bmah@acm.org (Bruce A. Mah) To: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@acm.org>, 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: <200112212156.fBLLuUd21193@bmah.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20011221132742.L16958-100000@localhost> References: <20011221132742.L16958-100000@localhost>
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If memory serves me right, "f.johan.beisser" wrote: > 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.. sysinstall(8) now has support for loading KLDs from floppy. This would help people bootstrap onto more machines. > > > 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? I presume (but haven't verified) that a kernel plus mfsroot would fit onto the 2.88MB filesystem used for CDROM booting. But it's a fact that the release-building process tries to build the 1.44MB floppy images and, if it can't, it falls over. :-p Yeah, this is non-optimal. We'll get our act together... Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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