Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> writes:
> 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.

We can also let the user edit the list of utilities to go into the
ramdisk, but a smaller kernel will probably help a lot with the size
of ramdisk the user can bring in.

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Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com