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Date:      Thu, 16 Jul 1998 21:55:30 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Make release fails because kernel is too large
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807162153310.23681-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
In-Reply-To: <199807161646.JAA26999@austin.polstra.com>

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On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, John Polstra wrote:

> Make release of -current is failing, because the install kernel is
> too large to fit into the filesystem on the boot floppy:

> Does anybody have an idea of what we can take out?  It seems likely
> that when CAM comes in, it will further expand the kernel.  And CAM
> definitely needs to come in.

Perhaps with the advent of CAM boot floppies we should also use DEVFS,
which would allow for saving ca. 50kB on inodes' space.

Andrzej Bialecki

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