Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:41:49 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <6F6FD8C6-445D-11D8-BAA5-000393863D48@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20040108143934.GA51446@ussenterprise.ufp.org> References: <20040107235737.I32227@pooker.samsco.home> <20040108143934.GA51446@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
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--Apple-Mail-2-1046429501 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On 8 Jan 2004, at 14:39, Leo Bicknell wrote: > Then, to replace the current floppy process, a new floppy installer > is created. It may or may not be based on FreeBSD, but what it > needs to be able to do is boot, load a network driver, configure > the network, and ftp the above mentioned iso into ram, and then > jump into the kernel from the iso as if it had been loaded from a > CD. Or mount the ISO image from a FAT, NTFS, UFS, or EXT2FS filesystem on a disk that's already in the machine... N --Apple-Mail-2-1046429501 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFAAYrek6gHZCw343URAv9fAJ93ajL8wRG2JwVpZxkBLpVF+RRw1QCeO43R BpwtgFYCAg4X3iM4l5XsruA= =pkdR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-2-1046429501--
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