On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Allen Briggs wrote:

> Hi folks.
>
> I've been working on building a snapshot of 1.5.3 for testing, but I've
> run into the perennial space problems on the boot floppy.  More severe
> than I expected, even, so I've had to do some trimming.
>
> It seems that the most likely candidates for ditching are some of the
> network drivers since there's always the on-board ethernet...
>
> Is there anyone who will be personally affected (or know someone who
> would be personally affected) by the install kernel lacking support
> for:
> 	epic*	SMC EPIC/100 Ethernet
> 	fxp*	Intel EtherExpress PRO 10+/100B Ethernet
> 	rtk*	Realtek 8129/8139 Ethernet
> 	sip*	SiS 900/7016 / NS83815 Ethernet

Those should probably be fine, since we're short on space.

> ?  It also appears that MSDOSFS is enabled in the install kernel.
> Anyone know why that might be the case?  I can't think when it might be
> necessary.

Probably since it's the one file system we and MacOS know how to write
easily. :-)

Take care,

Bill