From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 21 13:56:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F13937B405 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 13:56:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.233.149.189]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20011221215630.WWSW20122.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@bmah.dyndns.org>; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 21:56:30 +0000 Received: (from bmah@localhost) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBLLuUd21193; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 13:56:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200112212156.fBLLuUd21193@bmah.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "f.johan.beisser" Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" , Francisco Reyes , Chris Dillon , FreeBSD Chat List Subject: Re: Just lost one to Linux. Compaq server support. In-reply-to: <20011221132742.L16958-100000@localhost> References: <20011221132742.L16958-100000@localhost> Comments: In-reply-to "f.johan.beisser" message dated "Fri, 21 Dec 2001 13:31:27 -0800." From: bmah@acm.org (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@acm.org X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 13:56:30 -0800 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 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