From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 2 00:23:35 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA19331 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Oct 1995 00:23:35 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA19326 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 1995 00:23:18 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA09165 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 1995 08:23:08 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA04538 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 2 Oct 1995 08:23:08 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id IAA19063 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 2 Oct 1995 08:20:53 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199510020720.IAA19063@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 08:20:51 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199510020540.KAA02227@hq.icb.chel.su> from "Serge A. Babkin" at Oct 2, 95 10:40:34 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 578 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Serge A. Babkin wrote: > > > I just don't want to have to go down that road myself - I have too > > many larger install issues to worry about between now and next Sunday. > > May be I have lost some important points in your discussion but why you > cannot use 2 boot floppies ? It may be an option, you can put both > single-floppy and double-floppy versions on the CD-ROM. Very simple: somebody actually _has_to_implement_it_! -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)