cvs commit: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/installation/common install.sgml

[Bruce A. Mah]

If memory serves me right, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > How about a custom boot kernel?  When I suggested 12MB rather than
> > 7MB in the original PR, I was thinking of the case of building a
> > stripped-down custom kernel.  GENERIC certainly isn't going to fit
> > well in 16MB.
> 
> A custom kernel should work better.  I figured out that the "missing"
> memory is in fact the memory used by the kernel, so a system with a
> trimmed kernel should have a lot more memory available.  I'll run some
> more tests...

Thanks guys.  I'm just writing down what people tell me, so this help is
much appreciated.

(I wonder if maybe we should list a plausible number for booting
GENERIC, which might be the same as the "24MB to install" number, plus
some guess at what we might fit into with a custom kernel.)

Bruce.

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