Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 22:08:45 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com (Thomas David Rivers) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: 2.2-BETA and 1.2meg floppies? Message-ID: <Mutt.19970127220845.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199701271430.JAA01879@lakes.water.net>; from Thomas David Rivers on Jan 27, 1997 09:30:23 -0500 References: <199701271430.JAA01879@lakes.water.net>
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As Thomas David Rivers wrote: > I'm not sure if Jordan had included this in the "4-meg won't be > supported" announcement. Yes, he did. > Now, the 2.2-BETA boot floppy, boot.flp, will fit - it's 1177088 > bytes long. That's surprising. At least at one stage in the game, we ran out of space on the 1.2 MB floppies, and decided that we don't have the energy to deal any longer with this. (It's been a continous hunt for just a few bytes on the install floppy.) > So - I was wondering if we can produce a smaller "fixit.flp". It's not very difficult to do this. However, Julian didn't seem to be very interested in maintaining his floppy build submission that doesn't require an entire `make release' before, so it's currently a little orphaned. I'm not sure whether it will be possible for you to just create a fixit floppy without building an entire release... With a little Makefile tweaking, you should be able however. It's not much more than just some `crunchgen' stuff. Have a look into /usr/src/release/*. I could probably put up a fixit image without a vi, but this one will become outdated fairly soon. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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