Subject: Re: INSTALL kernels on release branch broken?
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/22/2000 12:40:33
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, David Brownlee wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Curt Sampson wrote:
> 
> > Good! Well, and bad, too. We need to make the INSTALL kernel smaller. The
> > first thing to do, I'd think, is see if there's much extra space on
> > the memory disk we can trim. We need to leave a bit so that people can
> > create small shell scripts, edit disklabels and the like, but we don't
> > need dozens of kilobytes. One also wonders if there are any programs we
> > can remove. 
> > 
> 	We do until someone directs pax to keep its temp data (permissions
> 	on extracted files) somewhere other than /tmp. Should be simple to
> 	do, but necessary unless we want to fillup the ramdisk extracting
> 	files.

How about we mount an MFS on /tmp upon startup?

cjs
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