From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 16 14:25:32 2003 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 DAF2437B401 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:25:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.goamerica.net (ny-mx-01.goamerica.net [208.200.67.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CD9743FAF for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:25:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eaja@erols.com) Received: from localhost (165.sub-166-141-30.myvzw.com [166.141.30.165]) by smtp.goamerica.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with SMTP id h5GLPANf009365 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:25:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:23:54 -0400 From: Eric Jacobs To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20030616172354.4850c3b2.eaja@erols.com> In-Reply-To: <20030616153806.A42660@FreeBSD.org> References: <20030616191852.GA52694@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <20030616194359.GA53587@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <20030616194625.GA1845@over-yonder.net> <20030616153806.A42660@FreeBSD.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: floppy.. Was: Drawing graphics on terminal 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: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 21:25:33 -0000 On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:38:06 -0500 Juli Mallett wrote: > 1) Network install. > The floppy could include only network (and requisite) drivers, > such that mass storage drivers could be pulled over the net at > an early stage in the install. Ideally we would work from the > information we gather about driverless devices to figure out > what drivers may be appropriate, but letting the user select > would be a must, as would possibly trying everything, with a > suitable warning that drivers may be quite large. > > 2) CD-ROM install. > The CD-ROM should be used for booting, or a floppy similar to > that in case 3. should be used. > > 3) Install from other physical medium. > No network drivers. Just storage (and requisite) driers of > every common colour at the very least. Driver floppies could > be available for the more bloated. No reason a user cannot run > sysinstall after the system is installed to set up the network > parameters they want, if they don't need them for the bootstrap > install. This should probably not have netinet, etc., I like these ideas. The one other thing I could imagine being useful would be a consoleless install via Ethernet. That could be managed though by having the network KLD's on the CD-ROM, since there wouldn't be a shortage of space.