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From: Adrian Steinmann <ast@marabu.ch>
Date: Thu,  2 Aug 2001 22:49:01 +0200
To: carlo@vis.ethz.ch (Carlo Dapor)
Subject: Re: Fat kernel, needs dieting (again :-)
Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG
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Someone said on stable@freebsd.org:

   > The other day a guy (sorry I forgot who) says that

That was me, <ast@marabu.ch>, see also

   http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=29272

and the copy of the earlier message below.
But carlo@vis.ethz.ch (Carlo Dapor) questions this:

   And top(1) just works fine ?  When I gzip(1)ed kernels in the past, everything
   worked just fine, except for top(1) and IIRC ps, which could not access some
   structure - sorry for being very vague here, it has been some time.

We are refering to a kgziped LOADER (/boot/loader) not kernel! The
loader on the boot floppy can be kgzip-ed safely and the pr=29272
above has the one-line patch enclosed. Maybe obrien@FreeBSD.org who
was working on this might incorporate this patch too, saving us
another 60k on boot floppies?

Thanks
Adrian
PS. This was the old message:

   Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 11:30:05 +0200
   To: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net>
   Subject: Re: SNAPSHOTS-no new -STABLE snapshot since Jul 21. Why?
   cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

   Chris BeHanna <behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net> wrote:
   On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, stuart nichols wrote:

   > I've got a couple of tranisient machines to rebuild, but
   > there have been no successful snapshot builds on releng4
   > since Jul 21.  (Shortly before that (Jul 17th-19th?) the
   > packages option from /stand/sysinstall caused a core dump.)
   >
   > What is keeping the snapshots from being created?

   IIUC (If I Understand Correctly), the boot floppy images are too
   large to fit on a floppy; therefore, "make release" fails.

   I recently sent in a patch for this (compress loader, rm /boot/boot?
   files) - see:

   http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=29272

   seems like someone's working on it.

   Adrian


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