miniboot.iso

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 08:15:38PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
[...]
> It looks like the kernel and kmods are being built with '-g'.  When I
> 'strip -x' /boot/kernel, it shinks from 47MB to 21MB.  Taking out
> kernel.debug drops another 5MB.  Can anyone say why we build the release
> bits with '-g'?  I'd sure like to save that extra space on the mini-iso,
> and have that extra space for packages on the full ISO.
> 
Only kernel.debug is there; the modules are normally built.  If
you look at my original email, I also said this:

On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 12:42:49PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> The uncompressed size for i386 is 46M, bzip2(1) compressed size
                                    ^^^
> is 16M, which I think many people can afford.  (The size of the
> miniinst.iso image is 231M.)
>
> Removing *.ko and kernel.debug from /boot/kernel gives 7M of
                                                         ^^
> uncompressed, and 3M of compressed miniboot.iso image.  The
> patch does not remove them currently, adding one line would
> do it.  Anyone has a reason why these should not be removed?
> One could think that the acpi.ko may be needed for IA64, but
> it's already part of the GENERIC kernel.

Then John explained that we want modules and kernel.debug will
be removed from stable releases.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru at sunbay.com		Sunbay Software Ltd,
ru at FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer
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