Re: alpha boot-floppies
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 tad-m2n@omoikane.co.jp wrote:
> I am trying to compile boot-floppies with alpha.
> I did quick-hack and modifiied boot-floppies to finish building
> in case of 'generic' sub-architecture.
>
> In that work, I have faced two problems:
>
> (a) root.bin is too large to fit in 1.44FD. (about 1.6Mbytes)
> possily because of very large size of libc and binaries.
> In particular, we might have to reduce the libc.
Strip libc. Just make sure that the libc on there won't get installed
onto the system since the final installation will require an unstripped
libc.
C
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