From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 11 15:12:47 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id PAA13031 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 15:12:47 -0800 Received: from isl.cf.ac.uk (isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk [131.251.22.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA13023; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 15:12:36 -0800 Received: (from paul@localhost) by isl.cf.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id XAA01667; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 23:12:17 GMT From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199501112312.XAA01667@isl.cf.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Graphical installations and such To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 23:12:17 +0000 (GMT) Cc: gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <27201.789828442@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 11, 95 04:47:22 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1384 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who said > > > What I mean by this is: > > > > 1) VM86 Bios mode disk driver as the method of installation, and > > as a viable alternative for folks waiting for their drive to be > > supported. Linux has this. Well I think we need a vm86 call first and no-ones bothered to write one yet and we really could do with one actually. > > 4) Ask about the type of ethernet device people have (link2 saga). I've got code that does this that uses Garretts device info. I'll pull it into sysinstall sometime soon. It's got buried in all the last minute hacking that took place and I'll have to go and dig it out of the revision history. > This all sounds great..! So.. Justin! Pal! What are you doing for > the next couple of weeks? Nothing? Terrific! There's this install > thing that Poul and I would *love* some help on! :-) Umm, I still consider myself involved in sysinstall. I'm a little peeved that I've been edged out actually since I did the original proof of concept of a dialog based single floppy installation and had and still do have every intention of continuing work on the project. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Phone: +44 1222 874000 x5958 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@CARDIFF.AC.UK