On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 11:34:18AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> In article <20060218.103556.35009448.taca@back-street.net>
> taca@back-street.net wrote:
> 
> > Do we really need to include other plathome's code in installboot(8)?

No, indeed on i386 sysinst itself doesn't use installboot at all!
(all you need to do it copy bootxx_xxx to the beginning of the mbr
partition missing out the sector that contains the disklabel).

Size *.cro|sort -n|tail gives:
  30205    1608    3616   35429    8a65 tip.cro
  40384     728     288   41400    a1b8 installboot.cro
  42318    2152  145984  190454   2e7f6 restore.cro
  57177    1188   44340  102705   19131 pax.cro
  63003    3276    6832   73111   11d97 less.cro
  71853     148    4104   76105   12949 fsck_ffs.cro
  72802    1952   25184   99938   18662 ftp.cro
  77856     548    3372   81776   13f70 sh.cro
  92997    8272   19032  120301   1d5ed sysinst.cro
 159042   17752   39656  216450   34d82 dhclient.cro

60k for a pager! 160k for a dhcp client!

> Try PR bin/32508.

There are just too many #if's in that PR - need to find a better way!


	David

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