Subject: Re: Does anybody have a 5 1/4" 1.2 Mb floppy-only system?
To: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.tujunga.ca.us>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/26/1996 22:52:41
> 
> But does INSTADP have anything "unnecessary" at this point?
> 
> More to the point, does INSTADP contain anything "unnecessary" that the
> removal of same would reduce the kernel in size by more than 75k?
> 
> Right now I can't go to /usr/src/distrib and make i386 install floppies.
> Period.  Because of this 1.2 Mb limit.  If the limit was 1.44 Mb, no problem.
> I can hack the places where it allocates the vnode device to make it 14 instead

Strip the damn kernel and get on with life.. :)
The INST* kernels already don't have support for X, so we need a GENERIC
one anyway.

-Andrew