Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/news68k/floppies/ramdisk

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

> the resulting filesystem has approx 150kb free so i'm guessing it's
> fine for this particular case (ramdisk-rescuetiny.)

The space in the filesystem hardly affects whether the image fits on
the 'floppy' - remember unused parts of the filesystem are almost
all zero bytes and compress very well.

The only real effect the filesystem size has is on the amount of memory
available in the target system.  Last time I checked sysinst (even with
install-tiny) didn't run in 8MB (i386), but does run in 16.  So adding
a few 100k to the ramdisk isn't actually a problem, and the sizes are
quite generous (maybe except for rescue-tiny).
The normal 2.8M install 'floppy' boots a kernel with a ramdisk that
is big enough for sysinst to core-dump into....

        David

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