Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:10:29 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@jonny.eng.br> Cc: dhw@whistle.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, rdawes@ucsd.edu Subject: Re: boot.flp versions Message-ID: <40753.917032229@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 22 Jan 1999 17:06:35 -0200." <199901221906.RAA19846@roma.coe.ufrj.br>
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OK, in retrospect, turning off swapping was a mistake. I should have thought about this a bit more before blindly accepting the suggestion from Andrzej. ;) Fixed. - Jordan > #define quoting(Jordan K. Hubbard) > // All: Sorry the boot.flp has been broken for this long, but I've had > // other distractions lately. I will make it work once more, somehow > // or other, and just keep your eyes on current.freebsd.org over > // the next few days. When it returns to 1.44MB in size again, give > // it a try. :) > > Another problem I had with that snap here is that it does not install > on a machine with 8M RAM. It started installing, but stopped in > random places during file copy. It did work after I remade the > kern.flp with only the devices I had (thus, using less memory). > > I noticed that swapping was disabled in the BOOTMFS kernel. Is this > really necessary ? How hard is to add an option "use this swap > partition during install", or even a "create and use a vn swap file in > /usr/tmp during install" ? > > Or should I just assume 8M RAM machines are not any more supported ? > > Jonny > > PS: Wow !!! The new loader made dealing with boot.flp a very easy > task. :) > > -- > Joao Carlos Mendes Luis M.Sc. Student > jonny@jonny.eng.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro > "This .sig is not meant to be politically correct." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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