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Re: Shuffling INSTALL kernels



On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 07:39:33PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 05:02:38PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:36:03AM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > is there any objection to rename the current INSTALL to INSTALL_MEDIUM,
> > > drop INSTALL_LARGE and introduce a GENERIC based new INSTALL kernel
> > > similiar to what we do for Xen domU?
> > 
> > No objection to build INSTALL_LARGE from GENERIC, but do we really
> > need to rename them ? 
> 
> I think the current naming is quite inconsistent. One question would be

But changing the names may confuse users

> if we want to drop INSTALL completely. Does it matter if you need three
> floppies or 6 (or whatever?)...

Yes, it may not fit in the computer which has the floppy drive.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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