not padded to disk-size boundaries (except for boot-big, for somewhat
unnecessary reasons), and the included kernel is already gzipped. Adding
another round of gzip saves only tens of K, but creates a duplicate image,
wasting space on release media including these files.
floppies as long as they fit, but they are the first to be sacrificed
if space is short, and get moved to a seperate rescue floppy.
This means that the default fdset and the 2.88M image have them,
but others (the "small" and "tiny" floppies) do not.
Sysinst is also back on the "tiny" image, and tested to be working
within 4M.
Use this in bootfloppy-big. mkisofs likes to have images fullsize nowadays.
Also, insert a file called "USTAR.volsize.<blocksize_in_octal>" if the
size of the ustar image is not the 1.44M default. This stops bootfloppy-big
from asking for a second diskette.
move it to ${IMAGE} when done, to ensure that an interrupted
build does not leave a broken non-functional target. (This can occur,
for instance, if one types 'make' as a non-root user and the vnconfig
fails, and then a subsequent 'make' will not rebuild the filesystem
image, using the all-zeroes image created by dd.)
and install:
o INSTALL and INSTALL_TINY kernels (for boot floppy images)
o GENERIC_TINY kernel
o Boot floppy images
Ideas borrowed from etc/etc.sun3/ setup.
"netbsd.gz". This speeds the boot by a small but perceptable amount.
The time between when the bootblocks print "no such file or directory"
for netbsd and when they show signs of actually having found netbsd.gz
is long enough to be noticeable, and looks bad..
the needed endianism of the architecture. One step towards cross-building
releases.
Not touched are newfs calls in install scripts as they run on the desired
machine and thus default correctly.
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