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Date:      Tue, 16 Jan 1996 23:37:37 -0500 (EST)
From:      Rob Trangmar <trangmar@gnsnet.com>
To:        David Langford <langfod@maui.net>
Cc:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, phk@critter.tfs.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Building a "custom" release of 2.1.0
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.91.960116233536.1752D-100000@flatline.gnsnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199601170049.OAA18876@hula.maui.net>

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Thats a really nice idea, but kind of requires loadable device drivers 
which FreeBSD doesn't have (yet?).

RobT

On Tue, 16 Jan 1996, David Langford wrote:

> Hmmm. If anyone has seen the install program for NeXTstep you might notice
> that it adds devices drivers off disk after asking what devices you
> have.
> 
> Would it be possible to go LKM happy with a kernel and ask what drivers
> to use?
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> David Langford
> langfod@maui.com
> 
> >It seems that Poul-Henning Kamp said:
> >> Yes, I have stayed out of the 2.1 business, since I don't have time/machines
> >> to test that too.  I hope we can get the crucial changes into 2.1 to make
> >> it boot on 4M machines, but otherwise it's too bad.
> >
> >I   know NFS install  is nice  but I  think we  can get lot  of RAM without
> >it.  The GENERIC   I  used  for the  laptop   has  not  SCSI,  no  NFS,  no
> >Ethernet. Doing a set of floppies  for IDE only  systems would cut down the
> >kernel maybe enough for most 4 MB machines. 
> >
> >The release/Makefile is not too bad, once you understand it better :-)
> >-- 
> >Ollivier ROBERT    -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-    roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net
> >   FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #1: Wed Jan 10 02:23:42 MET 1996
> >
> 



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