Subject: Re: tiny and small boot floppies
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Dan LaBell <dan4l-nospam@verizon.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/07/2005 01:59:20
On Jun 5, 2005, at 3:41 PM, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

>
> It is becoming increasingly difficult maintaining the
> bootfloppy-{small,tiny} and rescue-tiny boot floppy images.
>
> If we stopped supporting them, would this materially inconvenience
> anyone? Has anyone here used any of these images recently?  Hardware
> that needs either of these is now quite old, and it is always possible
> to build a custom boot floppy if needed.
>
> -- 
> Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com
>

So your talking about
./installation/floppy/boot-small1.fs
./installation/floppy/boot-small2.fs
./installation/floppy/boot-tiny.fs
./installation/floppy/rescue-tiny.fs

But not,
./binary/kernel/netbsd-GENERIC_PS2TINY.gz
./binary/kernel/netbsd-GENERIC_TINY.gz
./binary/kernel/netbsd-INSTALL_SMALL.gz
./binary/kernel/netbsd-INSTALL_SMALL.symbols.gz
./binary/kernel/netbsd-INSTALL_TINY.gz
./binary/kernel/netbsd-INSTALL_TINY.symbols.gz
./binary/kernel/netbsd-RESCUE_TINY.gz
./binary/kernel/netbsd-RESCUE_TINY.symbols.gz

I actually have not used the images, but I have used the TINY kernels 
and dosboot
from 1.6 to work around the problem C3 has with boot blocks since 2.0.  
It's more
the fact that it fits neatly on 1 disk with room for freedos and 
dosboot, than limited
ram.