Re: Shuffling INSTALL kernels

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:44:10PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:00:41PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:29:39PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > > if we want to drop INSTALL completely. Does it matter if you need three
> > > > floppies or 6 (or whatever?)...
> > > 
> > > Yes, it may not fit in the computer which has the floppy drive.
> > 
> > We currently build two kernels for i386 by default, GENERIC and
> > GENERIC.NOACPI. If you can't run a GENERIC based INSTALL kernel, what do
> > you expect use after installation?
> 
> I dind't notice GENERIC_TINY had gone. Anyway, a GENERIC based INSTALL will
> be larger than GENERIC as it has the ramdisk too. GENERIC may run where
> install will not. You can also boot INSTALL -a, to have a working
> system to rebuild a kernel.

I don't have a i386 build here at the moment, but the size different for
AMD64 is 4MB. i386 should be a bit smaller. I don't think that is
practically an issue, your system would be constantly swapping
otherwise. If it is, you would want to build a tiny or custom kernel for
installation and running anyway, wouldn't you?

Joerg