Subject: Re: INSTALL kernels on release branch broken?
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/22/2000 16:34:24
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Curt Sampson wrote:

> Good! Well, and bad, too. We need to make the INSTALL kernel smaller. The
> first thing to do, I'd think, is see if there's much extra space on
> the memory disk we can trim. We need to leave a bit so that people can
> create small shell scripts, edit disklabels and the like, but we don't
> need dozens of kilobytes. One also wonders if there are any programs we
> can remove. 
> 
	We do until someone directs pax to keep its temp data (permissions
	on extracted files) somewhere other than /tmp. Should be simple to
	do, but necessary unless we want to fillup the ramdisk extracting
	files.