Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/i386/conf

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost>]

David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost> writes:
> AFAICT the floppy image size isn't very dependant on the file system
> size, because any free space will be all 0x00 and compress very well.
> So a significant increase in the space for the image, and of the fs
> image itself will not make much difference to whether the image will
> fit in the availavle space on a floppy.

Well, obviously the problem in booting on a 4M machine is that part of
memory has the ramdisk and then you copy executables from the ramdisk
into "memory". Make the ramdisk too big and there is no memory for
actually loading programs. If only we could just map the one to the
other it would give us more breathing room.

For now you should probably document that we're no longer known to
install on a machine with less than 8M. Sigh. :(

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Perry E. Metzger                perry%piermont.com@localhost