On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:36:32PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 04:36:40PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > 
> > Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> writes:
> > > I'm not sure the normal install floppies will run on a 16MB system.
> > > There are quite a lot of these still in use ...
> > >
> > > Maybe we don't need to provide the boot floppies images, but we probably
> > > want to still provide the ramdisk images that can be put in a kernel
> > > binary using mdsetimage.
> > 
> > I think we should provide a script to allow people to take a custom
> > INSTALL kernel config file, and, from that, create custom boot
> > floppies. Then we should stop shipping small and tiny.
> 
> the "normal" ramdisk image is still too big for small-memory systems.
> Building a smaller kernel isn't enouth, we also need a smaller ramdisk.
> 

Then it should stay in-tree somehow. A "script" to allow someone to do that
will mean it works the day the script goes in and then immediately rots and
never works/fits again.

James