From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 11 15:31:51 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA18578 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 15:31:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA18573 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 15:31:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA03325 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:01:54 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.8/8.6.12) id WAA01310; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:27:03 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199901112127.WAA01310@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Boot.flp doesn't In-Reply-To: from Brian Feldman at "Jan 11, 99 03:56:44 pm" To: green@unixhelp.org (Brian Feldman) Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:27:03 +0100 (CET) Cc: dcs@newsguy.com, abial@nask.pl, mike@smith.net.au, jhay@mikom.csir.co.za, dfr@nlsystems.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, jwd@unx.sas.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Brian Feldman wrote... > On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > > Gee... that's a lot of cc's... > > > > Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > > > > > > > What about removing NFS on the boot.flp also? > > > > > > > > The server code is already removed; you could put the nfs_mod.ko file > > > > on a second floppy though. > > > > > > Wait a moment. If we really want to go this way, why don't put the whole > > > bunch of modules on a second floppy, and cut down the kernel size by half? > > > > Now, if my memory doesn't fail me, there are some people who do NFS > > installs on a sizable number of machines (emphasis on size) who have > > previously manifested the intention to kill anyone who makes them > > boot two disks instead of one. > > > > If we had to choose, I'd say try to keep it one disk as far as > > network installations are concerned. > > Why don't we just make more floppies? bootcd.flp, bootnet.flp, bootnfs.flp, > bootks.flp.... The floppy generation process could be pretty easily changed. > More floppies is pretty modular, anyway, without the need for using actual > KLDs :) This has been explored before. It is called Linux. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message