Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 21:52:07 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: jonny@jonny.eng.br (Joao Carlos Mendes Luis) Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, dhw@whistle.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, rdawes@ucsd.edu Subject: Re: boot.flp versions Message-ID: <199901222052.VAA14861@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199901221906.RAA19846@roma.coe.ufrj.br> from Joao Carlos Mendes Luis at "Jan 22, 99 05:06:35 pm"
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As Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote... > #define quoting(Jordan K. Hubbard) > // All: Sorry the boot.flp has been broken for this long, but I've had > // other distractions lately. I will make it work once more, somehow > // or other, and just keep your eyes on current.freebsd.org over > // the next few days. When it returns to 1.44MB in size again, give > // it a try. :) > > Another problem I had with that snap here is that it does not install > on a machine with 8M RAM. It started installing, but stopped in > random places during file copy. It did work after I remade the > kern.flp with only the devices I had (thus, using less memory). > > I noticed that swapping was disabled in the BOOTMFS kernel. Is this > really necessary ? How hard is to add an option "use this swap > partition during install", or even a "create and use a vn swap file in > /usr/tmp during install" ? > > Or should I just assume 8M RAM machines are not any more supported ? What grew so drastically that the memory requirements grew from 5 Mbytes minimum memory to > 8Mb? (remember all those discussions when 4Mb became too small to run the install floppy?) Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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