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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.



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