Subject: Re: tiny and small boot floppies
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/06/2005 23:36:32
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 04:36:40PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> writes:
> > I'm not sure the normal install floppies will run on a 16MB system.
> > There are quite a lot of these still in use ...
> >
> > Maybe we don't need to provide the boot floppies images, but we probably
> > want to still provide the ramdisk images that can be put in a kernel
> > binary using mdsetimage.
> 
> I think we should provide a script to allow people to take a custom
> INSTALL kernel config file, and, from that, create custom boot
> floppies. Then we should stop shipping small and tiny.

the "normal" ramdisk image is still too big for small-memory systems.
Building a smaller kernel isn't enouth, we also need a smaller ramdisk.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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