Re: RAMDISK kernel

[Petri Koistinen <pkoistin%hit.fi@localhost>]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 02:25:19AM +0300, Petri Koistinen wrote:
> 
> > OpenBSD has realy nice installation system. It has a compressed RAMDISK
> > kernel which has the embedded filesystem that contains the installation
> > tools. Why on earth NetBSD don´t have alike system. It is real pain to
> > install NetBSD beyond 4GB harddisk limit on AmigaOS.
> 
> Nobody finished the work yet.
> 
> Besides, when this is made standard, all the people with 4 MB fastmem will
> start to complain that they cant install any longer.

On OpenBSD there is also miniroot system available for people with only
4MB fastmem. And I belive that more people will complaing troubles
installing NetBSD beyond 4GB limit. (And who realy has only 4 MB nowdays.
;-)

Regards
Petri