On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 09:28:11AM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
> >
> > In doing the 1.5.1_BETA build for macppc I have found that there is
> > no way the current boot floppy can fit.
> >
> > I proprose the following:
> >
> > 	Remove uninorth and cardbus/pcmcia support.
> >
> > This will make bootfloppy only useful for older macppc systems for
> > floppy booting.
> >
> > Make a netbsd.ram.gz from GENERIC_MD instead of INSTALL which will
> > support all systems and be usable from CDROMs or Net booting.
> >
> > Anyone opposed to this plan?
>
> Removing only the usb devices and ohci (plus the PCI bus that only
> shipped in usb-enabled machines, if that makes you happy) was enough
> to make it fit for my 1.5S snapshot.
>
> See the thread about it, oh, two weeks ago now?
>
> There was a lot of discussion about the right thing to do (including
> switching to ustarfs for the file system on the floppy, which might
> buy enough space for everything to fit) in that thread, so you may
> want to reread it.

	How painful would it be to produce two boot floppies? One for
	older, and one fore newer?

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