On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 12:50:36PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> Julio Merino <jmmv@menta.net> writes:
> > > That might make TINY no longer work on the machines it is intended
> > > for. Have you tested it on a machine with that little memory?
> > 
> > No, I don't have a machine like that available (and I wasn't aware
> > about this problem)...  Although, boot-tiny.fs still fits in a single
> > floppy:
> > 
> > -r--r--r--  1 jmmv  wheel  1212416 Apr 23 17:17 boot-tiny.fs
> 
> The issue is the amount of memory.
> 
> You should hardwire a kernel for four megs of memory and see
> if you can boot. I think you can set options to delude the machine
> into thinking it has less memory.
> 
> > But if this is wrong, the ramdisk size needs to be reduced in some other
> > way...
> 
> We may have to give up on installs for TINY systems.

Hey! Veto!

-Martin :)