Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 00:36:25 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wilko@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: miniboot.iso Message-ID: <XFMail.20030803003625.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3F2C704A.6000004@freebsd.org>
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On 03-Aug-2003 Scott Long wrote: > 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. >> >> >> >>>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"?? >> >> > > It looks like the kernel and kmods are being built with '-g'. When I > 'strip -x' /boot/kernel, it shinks from 47MB to 21MB. Taking out > kernel.debug drops another 5MB. Can anyone say why we build the release > bits with '-g'? I'd sure like to save that extra space on the mini-iso, > and have that extra space for packages on the full ISO. We only do this for CURRENT snapshots, not for releases. For releases we comment out the 'makeoptions DEBUG=-g' line in GENERIC and then all the debug stuff automatically goes away. However, for CURRENT snaps, if the kernel panics on boot, you already have a matching kernel.debug to debug with. We discussed this many moons ago. -- 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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