From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 21 14: 0:13 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 34E3D37B417 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:00:06 -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 <20011221220005.WZCZ20122.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@bmah.dyndns.org>; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 22:00:05 +0000 Received: (from bmah@localhost) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBLM05s21253; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:00:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200112212200.fBLM05s21253@bmah.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Francisco Reyes Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" , Chris Dillon , FreeBSD Chat List Subject: Re: Just lost one to Linux. Compaq server support. In-reply-to: <20011221160028.U10480-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> References: <20011221160028.U10480-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> Comments: In-reply-to Francisco Reyes message dated "Fri, 21 Dec 2001 16:53:17 -0500." 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 14:00:05 -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, 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