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From: "Jody" <jbruchon@nc.rr.com>
Subject: Image generation
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 23:27:17 -0400
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> *snip*
> >
> > As Tommy pointed already, there's no space in the 360k root image for
all
> > the utilities. We can save a lot of inodes in devices (e.g. using 16
hd*
> > instead of 64), but the binaries still eat too much space (even with a
> > simplified shell in the 360k image.
>
> How about just hd[ab][1234] instead of 16?  It is highly unlikely that a
> system with a 360K drive would even have a second hard disk anyway.
Eight
> inodes tops for hard disks...maybe four since we probably won't need four
> partitions per disk either...
>
> Jody