Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 00:35:42 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wilko@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: miniboot.iso (was: Re: Floppies for ALPHA) Message-ID: <XFMail.20030803003542.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030803014647.GD98015@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On 03-Aug-2003 David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 12:42:49PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >> OK, the attached (trivial) patch can be used to create the >> miniboot.iso. Its contents is identical to what goes on the >> miniinst.iso, except for NOT putting any distributions, docs, >> and ports. >> >> The uncompressed size for i386 is 46M, bzip2(1) compressed size >> is 16M, which I think many people can afford. (The size of the > > What in the world is on this thing to be 46MB?!?!?!? All 3 .flp's added > together aren't this large. It has GENERIC plus modules plus kernel.debug for CURRENT snapshots, not BOOTMFS. >> Jake, a question for you: can this miniboot.iso image be used on >> sparc64 like on Alpha (as Wilko demonstrated) instead of the ugly >> boot.flp image? > > Why is making boot.flp "ugly"?? Because it uses a stripped down kernel with less support, and why go through all the heartache to limit it's size when you can just use a stock generic kernel? T DAVID PLZ 2 B RELAX K PLZ THX -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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