Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA13887; Sat, 30 Sep 95 15:44:35 EDT Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA13797; Sat, 30 Sep 95 15:44:08 EDT Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA13924 ; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 12:43:05 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA13806 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 12:41:27 -0700 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA13800 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 12:41:23 -0700 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id FAA12703; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 05:40:41 +1000 Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 05:40:41 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199509301940.FAA12703@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: glen@winternet.com, hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>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 >Let's hold on to this thought for a moment: what is preventing this >from happening *today*? For the moment, forget the additional >problems of doing this in the installation process. 150000 lines of old drivers that don't support hot probing, attaching or detaching. Bruce