Re: sysinst with Lua support

On Sun, 03 Nov 2013, Marc Balmer wrote:
> Indeed.  I just tried to build the atari port with Lua enabled, 
> it failes because of teh size.  So for now we could turn off 
> Lua for these ports, but we run into a big problem if sysinst 
> one day requires Lua.  So I think it is better to try to shrink 
> sysinst already now, so that it still fits on the install 
> floppy.

Some ports use a floppy format that allows the image to be split 
over many floppies.  The format is called ustarfs, and is based on 
a split tar archive.  Some of the code to build the floppies is 
in src/distrib/common/Makefile.tarfloppy.

Those ports that do not already use Makefile.tarfloppy could be 
changed to do so.  The ports that already use Makefile.tarfloppy 
might need the number of floppies to be incremented.

--apb (Alan Barrett)