On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 07:12:13PM +0200, Havard Eidnes wrote:
> > Is there any real reason we have to have an INSTALL_TINY,
> > i.e. an install that fits onto a single floopy?  Are there any
> > machines totally incapable of having a floopy switch happen in
> > the middle of the boot sequence?
> >
> > We may have outgrown our bounds, it would seem...
> 
> The original intent was to support installation of NetBSD on i386
> machines with only 4MB of RAM.  Now, I think it is a Long Time
> Ago that we were able to pull off that feat.

FWIW, I am Really Disappointed that I cannot run NetBSD on 4MB machines.
NetBSD does not require even more memory on RISC-y architectures, like
MIPS?  Seems to me that there are lots of devices that will never run
such a NetBSD because it is so fat.  I am thinking of < $100 802.11 APs.

Has anybody got pointers for trimming the size?

Dave

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