Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 07:21:03 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> To: Dag-Erling =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/installation/common install.sgml Message-ID: <1109690463.51837.21.camel@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> In-Reply-To: <86acpnmzih.fsf@xps.des.no> References: <200502262340.j1QNeAwm029973@repoman.freebsd.org> <861xb0ha8r.fsf@xps.des.no> <200502281644.54210.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <86acpnmzih.fsf@xps.des.no>
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--=-dcC7bBRo9rAx596i2e87 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If memory serves me right, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > How about a custom boot kernel? When I suggested 12MB rather than > > 7MB in the original PR, I was thinking of the case of building a > > stripped-down custom kernel. GENERIC certainly isn't going to fit > > well in 16MB. >=20 > A custom kernel should work better. I figured out that the "missing" > memory is in fact the memory used by the kernel, so a system with a > trimmed kernel should have a lot more memory available. I'll run some > more tests... Thanks guys. I'm just writing down what people tell me, so this help is much appreciated. (I wonder if maybe we should list a plausible number for booting GENERIC, which might be the same as the "24MB to install" number, plus some guess at what we might fit into with a custom kernel.) Bruce. --=-dcC7bBRo9rAx596i2e87 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCJIhf2MoxcVugUsMRAnqJAKChNE6iUr4PxFmPw5wG4l67nK6yggCdFbX2 WRWrJeerirljZv2H+X5ldAA= =/CGC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-dcC7bBRo9rAx596i2e87--
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