Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 00:06:00 -0700 From: bakul@BitBlocks.com To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PREFIX with X11 ports Message-ID: <199608220706.AAA27034@bsd.prognet.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Aug 1996 19:34:15 PDT." <199608220234.TAA18163@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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> * Make the install program understand URLs, a bit of simple text > * formatting and browsing and simple cgi scripts processing and, ugh, > * some forms processing, and you've got a very slick installer! > > Haha. Something like this? > > # ls / > bin cdrom kernel > # ls /bin > ls lynx sh > # lynx http://www.freebsd.org/install.html > Welcome to FreeBSD installaton! > : More like, on a boot floppy/cd-rom you have: ls -l /sbin/init -r-x------ 1 bin bin 147456 May 1 06:47 /sbin/init -> ../bin/lynx or may be -r-x------ 1 bin bin 147456 May 1 06:47 /sbin/init -> ../bin/httpd Then you can do remote installation ;-) Take it one step further and have a stripped down, standalone browser as your 2nd level boot! Think network appliances ;-)) The browser acts more like a visual shell with built-in help. You still need all those nuts-and-bolts programs to do the actual installation. HTML can make a decent glue language for such tasks. Now if Jordan's TCL based installer does this that'd be great! I eagerly await it.... -- bakul PS: Some day I'd want to do all system admin stuff this way including installing new packages and configuring a new kernel.
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