miniboot.iso (was: Re: Floppies for ALPHA)

[John Baldwin]

On 03-Aug-2003 David O'Brien wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 12:42:49PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>> OK, the attached (trivial) patch can be used to create the
>> miniboot.iso.  Its contents is identical to what goes on the
>> miniinst.iso, except for NOT putting any distributions, docs,
>> and ports.
>> 
>> The uncompressed size for i386 is 46M, bzip2(1) compressed size
>> is 16M, which I think many people can afford.  (The size of the
> 
> What in the world is on this thing to be 46MB?!?!?!?  All 3 .flp's added
> together aren't this large.

It has GENERIC plus modules plus kernel.debug for CURRENT snapshots,
not BOOTMFS.
  
>> Jake, a question for you: can this miniboot.iso image be used on
>> sparc64 like on Alpha (as Wilko demonstrated) instead of the ugly
>> boot.flp image?
> 
> Why is making boot.flp "ugly"??

Because it uses a stripped down kernel with less support, and why
go through all the heartache to limit it's size when you can just
use a stock generic kernel?

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