2.2-RELEASE will not support installation of machines with < 4MB of +memory or 1.2MB floppy drives - that is to say, only > 5MB memory & +1.44MB floppy drive systems are supported. In truth, 8MB of memory +is the recommended minimum.
+ +Those who have such limitations on their configuration and can't +upgrade, for whatever reason, are therefore urged to stay with +2.1.6-RELEASE, which has provisions for both types of installation and +will probably be more than functional for as long as one might +conceivably wish to continue operating such a system.
+ +We regret any inconvenience this may cause some of our users, but we +have also been pressed for space on the installation media for some +time now, and this was more or less inevitable. We've talked about +killing the 4MB installation and 1.2MB floppies for over a year, and +it's only through some of the most arcane trickery (you don't want to +know) that we've managed to keep it all on a single floppy at all. +Now that we've made the leap to 1.44MB/>6MB class machines, we've at +least bought ourselves some room for future enhancements while still +remaining on one floppy.
+ +Note that you can still build kernels which will run quite comfortably +in a 4MB system, you just can't *install* with only 4MB in the +machine. If you're trying to build a custom box with 4MB and a tiny +configuration, for example, you might simply build its disk on a +different machine set up specifically for that purpose.
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