tech-lists <tech-li...@zyxst.net> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 09:55:28AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > >tech-lists <tech-li...@zyxst.net> wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 09:25:01AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > >> >The miniroot is 33MB because it contains many install firmwares, and > >> >it is 97% full. > >> > > >> >I suggest you find another way of installing. > >> > > >> > >> Is there a technical (or some other reason I'm not seeing) why > >> miniroot68.fs > >> has been made as small as it is, and not some other size like 48MB, which > >> would allow the msdos partition to be made larger? > > > >Why 48MB? Why not 2GB? Why not make miniroot68.img be 2GB for download > >to satisfy some bizzare usage pattern? > > > >All media are created to be small, no larger than they need to be. > > OK I get it. The install requires an additional USB storage device. > > What I wanted to do was to write latest firmwares from > https://github.com/pftf/RPi4 as described in > OpenBSD/6.8/arm64/INSTALL.arm64 > into the (mdconfig-mounted) msdos partition of miniroot68.img prior to writing > it to the sdcard, as I didn't have an additional USB storage device.
Modifying the miniroot is not a stock usage case. I firmly believe that INSTALL.arm64 text *should not exist*. Such special cases increase the messiness of using OpenBSD. > The latest firmwares (v1.22) unzip to 5.4MB but the msdos partition is only > 4.0MB. The firmware should be updated in the tree, and instructions encouraging people to do weird stuff should not exist. That is my take on this.
