Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 14:48:25 -0400
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To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. 
Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com
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>>All I can say is this:  If we can get things back to below the 4MB
>>boundry then that will be fine and dandy, but we WILL be back here
>>again.  We really need to get the dynamic device driver issue
>>on the road if we're to ever have any hope at all in running on
>>small memory machines for the forseeable future.  Perhaps one
>>or more of the last 4MB hold-outs will see necessity as the
>>mother of invention and start working on this? :)
>>
>>					Jordan
>
>Fixing LKMs (something even people with more than 4MB want) should take
>care of this.
>--

It really shouldn't. I think that  what is needed is a "bootload" kernel and
a "generic"
kernel. While its ok for the generic kernel to be large, the "bootload"
should allow someone to 
load the system and compile (or load) a custom kernel, which can be much
smaller. There's no
reason why the generic kernel has to be used on the boot floppy.

Dennis
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