From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 31 00:38:10 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA04054 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 00:38:10 -0800 Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA04010; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 00:38:00 -0800 Received: from caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de (wosch@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.18.7]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id KAA06129; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 10:36:53 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider Received: (wosch@localhost) by caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.10/8.6.9) id KAA10937; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 10:36:41 +0200 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 10:36:41 +0200 Message-Id: <199503310836.KAA10937@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Nate Williams , hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: MBONE interfaces and snazzy install tools. In-Reply-To: <210.796430925@freefall.cdrom.com> References: <199503282243.PAA11905@trout.sri.MT.net> <210.796430925@freefall.cdrom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard writes: >We do have a _small_ problem in that you can only start using things >like perl after the bindist is installed, which means you can't use it >for first-order installation tools (boot/cpio floppy stage), but you >can use libdialog or libforms at the boot floppy stage and dialog/sh >after the cpio stage (first reboot). Depending on the types of tools >you're wanting to write, this may or may not be a problem. > >An example of where it IS a problem is the kbdmap/kbdfont tools, which >I'd really prefer to bring up at the _very beginning_ when it makes >the most sense, but as they use PERL I am unable to do so. Oh well! Replace test sleep sed rmdir rm mv mkdir ln grep expr date cp basename cat in stand/* with perl + perlscripts and you have enough space :-) PS: you can't load fonts/keymaps without /usr/share/syscons (bindist) Gruß Wolfram -- http://hyperg.cs.tu-berlin.de/C~wosch