From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 10 18:13:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gongshow.masterplan.org (masterplan.powersurfr.com [24.108.43.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED10A15219 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 18:13:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jbg@masterplan.org) Received: from infomat (infomat.precident.com [192.168.4.2]) by gongshow.masterplan.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA19427 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 19:11:11 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from jbg@masterplan.org) Message-Id: <199904110111.TAA19427@gongshow.masterplan.org> From: jbg@masterplan.org (Jason George) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Add smbclient to root crunch for installs? Organization: The Master Plan Always Fails... Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 01:13:01 GMT Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I guess, by this way of thinking, that using the "used-to-be-called Rumba/now-called Sharity-light" port is also a possibility. Comparing file sizes, it looks like Sharity (I have the older Rumba installed) is a lot more compact than is SMBclient. > ls -l /usr/local/bin/smbclient -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 244731 May 20 1998 /usr/local/bin/smbclient > ls -l /usr/local/sbin/*rumba* -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 69632 Jun 7 1998 /usr/local/sbin/rumba -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 8192 Jun 7 1998 /usr/local/sbin/unrumba > Just some food for thought... --Jason j.b.georgeieee.org jbgmasterplan.org >It's certainly a possibility... If somebody's got some space to >test make release, they can try hacking the mfsroot crunch config >file and building smbclient into it. There would be some dependency >issues, of course, since samba isn't part of the base system. > >- Jordan > >> Since 3.1-RELEASE has gone to 2 floppies, it somehow hit my mind >> today that it ought to be possible to hack the installation >> program to use smbclient to fetch installation tarballs from >> a shared CDROM on a nearby Microsoft machine (my love for >> Microsoft is low, but for many users there often is one >> nearby :-/ ). >> >> I have done no research yet on how this might be achieved. >> I just wanted to mention it here first to see if it was a >> fruitful line of inquiry or not. >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message