Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/i386/conf

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost>]

Julio Merino <jmmv%menta.net@localhost> 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.

Perry
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