Subject: Re: NetBSD/Alpha -- comments after initial install on a DEC 3000/500
To: Jeff Kellem <composer@crl.dec.com>
From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@LAGAVULIN.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU>
List: port-alpha
Date: 03/15/1995 23:35:24
> A possible suggestion for the rz25 disk image:
>
> include /usr/src/sys
>
> that is, assuming that there's still enough room to compile a kernel.
> Then, one should be able to build new kernel's with just the disk
> image.
There's enough room. there are a few reasons why i didn't do
this:
(1) the disk images can be built automatically, by anybody.
I didn't really want to encode information about _my_
source tree setup into the process...
(2) it wasn't at all convenient (and still isn't) to copy the
/usr/src/sys tree on to the distribution disk, given my
local source tree setup.
(3) it would be bad to put the source tree on the disk image,
and only on the disk image; a lot of people are
interested in the sources, but don't care about
actually running the code. Why waste space by having
two copies (one on the disk image, one in a source tar
file)?
cgd