On Wed, Dec 15, 1999, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> Firstly, size: One of sysinstall's requirements is that it fit (along
> with a variety of other related commands) onto a floppy disk. Last
> time I checked, the /stand bundle (sysinstall + friends) was ~640K.
> The smallest X-server (XF86_VGA16) is 1.7MB (plus libraries). I don't
> have either Qt or Lesstif installed, but from previous dealings with
> Motif, it's several times the size of the Xserver. Unless we want to
> mandate the use of ZIP drives (or similar) as FreeBSD install
> floppies, we're limited to a syscons (or VTxxx) sysinstall.
If it comes down to it, and Jordan's idea for the pkg installation
really does/can apply to the actual OS installer, what we could
do is have a statically linked, stripped, gzipped X server
(though I haven't seen how small VGA16 can be at that point), and
a small Xt frontend linked with the installer somehow (depending
on what Jordan has in mind), for those with size concerns.
Hopefully this won't be the default for things like CDs,
however. :)
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