> From: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
> Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 21:44:56 +0200 (MET DST)

> > 4. Has anyone got any hints as to what should be in the MFS kernel?
> > Is there already a RAMROOT kernel out there I should use? Would it be
> 
> The machinery to do this is present in post-1.2. One possible scheme
> goes like this:

Exactly what you describe is present in both 1.1 and 1.2 on the sun3.
(Feel free to take what you find useful! 8^)

> This microroot thing could be crammed in less than 2MB. The question is
> what would make a sensible layout for the CD and how to make it acceptable
> as a boot device for the PROM.

The sun3 RAMDISK takes only 256KB!  Whole kernel is < 1MB.
(Of course, SPARC binaries will be a little larger.)

Gordon