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Date:      Fri, 21 Dec 2001 16:53:17 -0500 (EST)
From:      Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com>
To:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@acm.org>
Cc:        Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com>, 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:  <20011221160028.U10480-100000@zoraida.natserv.net>
In-Reply-To: <200112212050.fBLKoiH20562@bmah.dyndns.org>

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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?


> 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.


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