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Date:      Fri, 22 Jan 1999 17:06:35 -0200 (EDT)
From:      Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@jonny.eng.br>
To:        jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        dhw@whistle.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, rdawes@ucsd.edu
Subject:   Re: boot.flp versions
Message-ID:  <199901221906.RAA19846@roma.coe.ufrj.br>
In-Reply-To: <90520.916884844@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 20, 1999  6:14: 4 pm"

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// 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 ?

					Jonny

PS: Wow !!!  The new loader made dealing with boot.flp a very easy
task.  :)

--
Joao Carlos Mendes Luis            M.Sc. Student
jonny@jonny.eng.br                 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
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