Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 22:33:46 +0100 From: Mark Brown <broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Documentation on boot floppy Message-ID: <19980803223346.A26455@tardis.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <35C6255C.E63572CE@dal.net>; from Studded on Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 02:02:20PM -0700 References: <19980803000447.A17692@tardis.ed.ac.uk> <35C6255C.E63572CE@dal.net>
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On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 02:02:20PM -0700, Studded wrote:
> Mark Brown wrote:
> > It would be nice if the documentation on the boot floppy was avalible
> > (more obviously?) from outside the floppy.
> Can you provide more details as to what you mean by available? Exactly
> what would you like to see? Keep in mind that every byte on the boot
> floppy is precious, so the chances that the files can be duplicated in a
> manner differently than they are now is small.
They're there (I assume). The trouble is that any attempt to view them
fails, apparently due to lack of memory. After kernel config, I have
1092K free. After that, any attempt to access the documentation
(actually view a file) causes a "pid killed, out of swap space" message
on tty2 and a complaint about being unable to open the file. Attempting
to start a shell to look around the floppy simply caused a similar
failure.
What I would like to see is something on the web pages saying "here is
the documentation on the floppy" (perhaps even "here are the contents of
the floppy"). Either that, or providing a low-memory method for viewing
the docs.
Once my main system becomes idle, I will be able to boot that and take a
look around.
--
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