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Date:      Mon, 11 Jan 1999 12:58:41 +0200 (SAT)
From:      John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
To:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Cc:        jhay@mikom.csir.co.za, abial@nask.pl, dfr@nlsystems.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, jwd@unx.sas.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Boot.flp doesn't
Message-ID:  <199901111058.MAA00994@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <199901111043.CAA90355@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Jan 11, 99 02:43:30 am"

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> > > > 
> > > > > > it looks like the loader doesn't understand a gzipped kernel.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Yeah, it also looks like we're going to be out of the release business
> > > > > for awhile.  We've hit another space crunch and I'm not yet sure
> > > > > what to do about it.
> > > 
> > > ....forgot about three more:
> > > 
> > > * add NO_IPX flag to ifconfig's Makefile and source, define this flag for
> > > RELEASE_CRUNCH, and remove libipx from crunch.conf
> > > 
> > > * remove 'options "COMPAT_43"' - experiments have shown that this
> > > particular set of programs doesn't care.
> > > 
> > > * add:
> > >  options NO_LKM
> > >  options NO_SWAPPING
> > >  options NO_F00F_HACK
> > 
> > What about removing NFS on the boot.flp also?
> 
> The server code is already removed; you could put the nfs_mod.ko file 
> on a second floppy though.
> 

That was what I was thinking of. I think ftp installs are much more used
than nfs installs and for that reason nfs could move to the second floppy
and few (I think) people would be impacted.

John
-- 
John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za

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