Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 10:40:34 +0500 (GMT+0500) From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, julian@ref.tfs.com, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. Message-ID: <199510020540.KAA02227@hq.icb.chel.su> In-Reply-To: <20482.812479445@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 30, 95 09:44:05 am
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> > > > For some machines (e.g. laptops) it is too expensive to add memory, > > often they use special modules or just don't have the slots. I > > think we can manage by making it not too hard for 4MB users to > > build their own boot floppy (on a guest system, if it cannot be > > supplied as default). > > Alternately, and I'm not fundamentally opposed to this, if someone out > there wants to sit down and build a boot floppy that WILL work in 4MB > by ripping some large piece of its component anatomy out, well, I > certainly won't stand in their way and will even go as far as sticking > it on the CDROM and the FTP areas with a little note to the effect > that it's to be considered a solution of last resort for 4MB folks. > > I just don't want to have to go down that road myself - I have too > many larger install issues to worry about between now and next Sunday. May be I have lost some important points in your discussion but why you cannot use 2 boot floppies ? It may be an option, you can put both single-floppy and double-floppy versions on the CD-ROM. Serge Babkin ! (babkin@hq.icb.chel.su) ! Headquarter of Joint Stock Commercial Bank "Chelindbank" ! Chelyabinsk, Russia > > For some machines (e.g. laptops) it is too expensive to add memory, > > often they use special modules or just don't have the slots. I > > think we can manage by making it not too hard for 4MB users to > > build their own boot floppy (on a guest system, if it cannot be > > supplied as default). > > Alternately, and I'm not fundamentally opposed to this, if someone out > there wants to sit down and build a boot floppy that WILL work in 4MB > by ripping some large piece of its component anatomy out, well, I > certainly won't stand in their way and will even go as far as sticking > it on the CDROM and the FTP areas with a little note to the effect > that it's to be considered a solution of last resort for 4MB folks. > > I just don't want to have to go down that road myself - I have too > many larger install issues to worry about between now and next Sunday. > > Jordan >
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