From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 3 12:47:07 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA05999 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 12:47:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles317.castles.com [208.214.167.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA05994 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 12:47:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07228; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 12:43:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901032043.MAA07228@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Brian Dean cc: jwd@unx.sas.com (John W. DeBoskey), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make release (almost) No space left on device In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 03 Jan 1999 15:39:45 EST." <199901032039.PAA68739@vger.foo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 12:43:50 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Maybe we can move to having a network installation floppy and a > > disk media installation floppy... I personally do not want to see > > a multidisk boot process. I've used it on other systems, and it > > really hurts. > > I second this suggestion. > > Please avoid having a two (or more - ouch!) floppy install process. I > typically install up to 30 machines at a time and a two floppy install > will make this chore almost unbearable! We'll do what we can, but consider using a bootable CDROM instead of floppies for your installs. Much faster. There's a limit to what we can pack onto a floppy, unfortunately. 8( -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message