cvs commit: src/release/ia64 boot_crunch.conf

[Wilko Bulte]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 04:12:46PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote..
> On Monday 04 October 2004 04:07 pm, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 10:51:09AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > On Thursday 30 September 2004 04:34 pm, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > > >   Log:
> > > >   Trade slattach for gpt. With all the tools to create new file
> > > > systems, the tool one needs to partition a disk is more important than
> > > > some poor man's network interface.
> > >
> > > You don't really have to trade anymore as we don't care if the mfsroot
> > > grows now.
> >
> > Doesn't that sentiment make crunching a pointless activity?
> 
> Well, there's no reason to go make it huge, per se, but the original reason 
> for constraining mfsroot's crunch was that mfsroot.gz had to fit on a single 
> 1.44 MB floppy and it doesn't have to do that anymore, so it's ok if you just 
> want to add a new program and grow the crunch by a few 10k or a few 100k.

I actually tested a floppy install on Alpha for one of the early 5.3-BETAs
and wow, it works ;-)

Neat job.

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org