Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:00:05 -0800 From: bmah@acm.org (Bruce A. Mah) To: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@acm.org>, 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: <200112212200.fBLM05s21253@bmah.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20011221160028.U10480-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> References: <20011221160028.U10480-100000@zoraida.natserv.net>
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If memory serves me right, Francisco Reyes wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > > (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 > > But wouldn't it be good to still do a daily build? In particular for those > that can just boot from CD? It would be *great* to do a daily build, but src/release/Makefile really really really wants to build those 1.44MB floppy images. If they can't be made, the release build falls over. > > http://snapshots.jp.freebsd.org/ has ISO images, but they're probably > > having the same problem with the GENERIC kernel. > > I am downloading 12-14 from them. Cool. They are almost the same as the output of a standard "make release", except that they also have the spiffy PDF versions of the release notes and friends, in addition to the HTML and text. Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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