On 06-Dec-01 Lamont Granquist wrote: > > > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Leo Bicknell wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:15:30PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: >> > > and ordinary user will find FreeBSD is slower, could we let user to >> > > select which kernel to install at installing time? >> > >> > It's a possibility that I've considered, given that sysinstall >> > had a hard time supporting installing FreeBSD from a single CDROM >> > image to support both developers and the end product with a single >> > "golden" system image. >> > >> > The problem with doing this is that it sort of grates against the >> > idea of a "GENERIC" entirely. >> >> The problem with GENERIC is it is the lowest common denominator. >> While it's really cool we can still boot on a 386 with 4 meg of >> RAM, making the compromises to make that happen is not terribly >> useful. > > An alternative solution that i haven't read anyone suggest on this thread > is simply to improve man tuning(7) and make people more aware of it.
Actually, we _can't_ boot on a 386 with 4 megs of ram. I think you need at least 8, and GENERIC on -current doesn't boot on a 386. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
