Re: Shuffling INSTALL kernels

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:48:25AM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 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?

Yes, and booting INSTALL with -a may allow you to have a functionnal system
to build a custom kernel ...
the embeded ramdisk + the memory filesystem + RAM needed to run sysinst
and associated binaries without swap is quite large.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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