Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:32:17 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: re@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppies for ALPHA Message-ID: <3F26CBC1.7030704@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20030729191917.GA66399@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>
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Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:02:39AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > >>On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 04:16:19PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > > [...] > >>>Is there an alternative for those in remote areas that can neither >>>download the miniiso nor buy the cd set? Every time that we talk about >>>downloading iso's, the issue comes up of those in eastern-bloc and >>>asian countries that have little bandwidth. Can Alpha do a 'boot-only' >>>cd image that is <5MB? >> >>Maybe. But you would need a lot of other stuff to make it useful as >>an installed system so why would the size of the boot'kit' be so important? >>I mean, you need the rest of the bits downloaded anyway to get a useful >>installation. >> > > This is not the point IMO. The point is to have the miniboot.iso > that could be used to replace a floppy, something less than 5MB, > with only kernel and MFS root on it (resembling the contents of > the "big" boot.flp floppy). Everything else would have to be > downloaded from the net (e.g., FTP), but that would not cost you > 236MB like it's currently for the miniinst.iso for 5.1/Alpha -- > the "base" distribution on FTP is only 47MB. > > If there's some interest, I could add the support for generating > miniboot.iso to release/Makefile. This would be extremely > useful for other platforms too, including i386. Just let me > know if there's a strong interest in this. > > > Cheers, This idea has intrigued me for a while. Feel free to prototype something! Scott
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