Re: Shuffling INSTALL kernels

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:00:41PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:29:39PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > if we want to drop INSTALL completely. Does it matter if you need three
> > > floppies or 6 (or whatever?)...
> > 
> > Yes, it may not fit in the computer which has the floppy drive.
> 
> We currently build two kernels for i386 by default, GENERIC and
> GENERIC.NOACPI. If you can't run a GENERIC based INSTALL kernel, what do
> you expect use after installation?

I dind't notice GENERIC_TINY had gone. Anyway, a GENERIC based INSTALL will
be larger than GENERIC as it has the ramdisk too. GENERIC may run where
install will not. You can also boot INSTALL -a, to have a working
system to rebuild a kernel.

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