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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD SoundBlaster support
Date: 7 Aug 94 23:55:22 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <323g2o$93c@sandra.teleport.com> bmk@teleport.com (bmk) writes:
>My kernel (with SB support compiled in, all of the devices and such I
>don't need strippted out) weighs in at 670393 (654K) bytes. This is
>under 1.1.5.1-RELEASE.
>I thought that there was a limit of 640K? Under 1.1-BETA, I couldn't
>use a kernel over 640K; now I can. Hmmm.
I don't know about FreeBSD, but I've been doing this with NetBSD for
months:
[michaelv@MindBender]~> dir /netbsd
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root kmem 863485 Aug 2 02:42 /netbsd
It just depends on how sophisticated your boot loader code is.
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Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center
michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free Un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc.
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