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- From: mario@wdc.sps.mot.com (Mario Nigrovic)
- Subject: Re: Questions about booting from a floppy. (IPC)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.000747.28590@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
- Originator: root@mogate.sps.mot.com
- Sender: mario@wdc (Mario Nigrovic)
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- Organization: Motorola Western MCU Design Center, Chandler Arizona
- References: <1992Aug13.145653.7605@ncar.ucar.edu> <4279@inca.comlab.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 00:07:47 GMT
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- Booting from the floppy is a neat idea, but consider...
- 1) Where are you going to SWAP?
- 2) Before the booted system will be useful, you'll need
- 2a) init
- 2b) sh
- 2c) mount
- 2d) ifconfig
- 2e) hostname
-
- I'm sure there are other concerns. init+sh+mount+ifconfig+hostname
- is somewhere around 500K, just a little too big to put on the same
- floppy as /vmunix (which can be about 900K). Then there's the
- issue of swap space... Maybe Solaris 2.0 solves this? I've heard
- that it doesn't require swap > mem, which implies that swap = 0
- might be OK?
-
- --
-
- Mario
-
- Mario Nigrovic <mario@wdc.sps.mot.com> voice: (602) 821-4264
- Motorola Western MCU Design Center fax: (602) 821-4058
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