Subject: Re: Space on SSTO boot floppy
To: None <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/22/1997 00:10:53
Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no writes:
> it appears that whatever was last put on the NetBSD boot floppy
> image made it overflow the permitted size of a 1.2M floppy:

We know. We know.

> Is the next step to abandon the 1.2M floppies and only generate
> floppies for 1.44M?

Well, my current thought is that we do a 1.2M floppy without PCMCIA
or PCI support on the premise that any machine with 1.2M floppies has
neither.

I'll have a solution within a couple of days.

> Oh, yes, this is with sources SUPed today.  I see the ramdisk is
> only 89% full; perhaps the ramdisk size inside the kernel should
> be reduced?  (Not sure that helps either, as the zeros there
> should be compressed well by gzip.)

You are correct, it won't help.

Perry