On Mon, 8 May 2006, Garrett D'Amore wrote:

> Hubert Feyrer wrote:
>> On Tue, 9 May 2006, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>>> It sounds like a good plan..., but it doesn't sound like it'll be
>>> ready this week. What'll we do about the broken "make release", in
>>> the meantime?
>>
>> My changes won't touch that anyways.
>>
>> Possible fixes are
>>  * remove e.g. bad144
>>  * go to three floppies for bootfloppy and bootfloppy-com

"bootfloppy" is the El Torrito image, so that's currently not an 
option.

>>  * ?
>>
>> Someone decide, I don't care.

> Sorry if my ignorance of the install process is showing.  But would
> going to three floppies create a new situation where systems with small
> memories (think 4MB) cannot function?
>
> I've got NetBSD running in 8MB, and I can tell you, it isn't much fun.
> Losing even more space to an MD is likely to make 4MB systems (even
> more) unusable.
>
> Or do we just not care about systems with memories less than X (FSVO X)?

Of course we care.  You should be using bootfloppy-small (two 1.2MB 
floppies) or even bootfloppy-tiny (one) -- that's what they're for. 
(Can you really run NetBSD in 4MB?)


Frederick