Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 18:46:47 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wilko@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: miniboot.iso (was: Re: Floppies for ALPHA) Message-ID: <20030803014647.GD98015@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030731094249.GB8699@sunbay.com> References: <200307211915.h6LJFPJY054212@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030721214042.GA563@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3F1C6216.3020006@freebsd.org> <20030721220419.GA909@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3F1C6633.5070009@freebsd.org> <20030722070239.GA2687@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20030729191917.GA66399@sunbay.com> <3F26CBC1.7030704@freebsd.org> <20030731094249.GB8699@sunbay.com>
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 12:42:49PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > OK, the attached (trivial) patch can be used to create the > miniboot.iso. Its contents is identical to what goes on the > miniinst.iso, except for NOT putting any distributions, docs, > and ports. > > The uncompressed size for i386 is 46M, bzip2(1) compressed size > is 16M, which I think many people can afford. (The size of the What in the world is on this thing to be 46MB?!?!?!? All 3 .flp's added together aren't this large. > Jake, a question for you: can this miniboot.iso image be used on > sparc64 like on Alpha (as Wilko demonstrated) instead of the ugly > boot.flp image? Why is making boot.flp "ugly"??
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