From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 11 09:42:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D13C16A4CE for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 09:42:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from crf-consulting.co.uk (82-44-220-218.cable.ubr10.haye.blueyonder.co.uk [82.44.220.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12F8B43D39 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 09:41:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@freebsd.org) Received: from [192.168.1.112] ([192.168.1.112])i0BHfuaY050443; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:41:56 GMT (envelope-from nik@freebsd.org) In-Reply-To: <20040108143934.GA51446@ussenterprise.ufp.org> References: <20040107235737.I32227@pooker.samsco.home> <20040108143934.GA51446@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v609) Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Apple-Mail-2-1046429501" Message-Id: <6F6FD8C6-445D-11D8-BAA5-000393863D48@freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Nik Clayton Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:41:49 +0000 To: Leo Bicknell X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 1.0 (v30, 10.3) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.609) cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:42:03 -0000 --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--