i386/loader compiled with NOFORTH

[Tim Kientzle]

Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 04:49:21PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
>>Does bzip2 really buy us that much more space than
>>gzip in this case?
> 
> ... saves us 50-60K of space on 1.44MB floppies.


People still use 1.44MB floppies?  I don't
even have floppy drives in my PCs anymore.

Perhaps it's time to demote the boot floppies
to second-class status.  People who can't boot
from CD-ROM don't need driver support for the
newest, fanciest hardware in the installation
kernel.

For people that are using boot floppies to avoid
downloading the CD-ROMs, maybe a "mini-boot CD"
is a better choice.  You can fit a lot more
onto a 5MB CDROM than onto a pair of 1.44MB
floppies.

Tim