From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 3 13:14:50 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA08347 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 13:14:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dewdrop2.mindspring.com (dewdrop2.mindspring.com [207.69.200.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA08342 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 13:14:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdean@mindspring.com) Received: from vger.foo.com (user-38ld95u.dialup.mindspring.com [209.86.164.190]) by dewdrop2.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA11922; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 16:14:18 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bsd@localhost) by vger.foo.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA68859; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 16:13:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bsd) From: Brian Dean Message-Id: <199901032113.QAA68859@vger.foo.com> Subject: Re: make release (almost) No space left on device In-Reply-To: <199901032043.MAA07228@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Jan 3, 1999 12:43:50 pm" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 16:13:12 -0500 (EST) Cc: brdean@mindspring.com, jwd@unx.sas.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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( I only use the floppy to boot. For the distribution media, I use NFS or FTP from a local server. I generate 30 or so boot floppies with a sysinstall configuration file for each system and boot them all in parallel. If I don't install the ports, I can usually be completely done with all of the machines in less than 40 minutes. A multiple floppy boot would throw this off quite a bit, and I could never do it in that amount of time by visiting each machine sequentially with a CDROM boot (and I can't reasonably burn 30 CD's). Every day you keep the single-floppy boot, you have my gratitude! -Brian -- Brian Dean brdean@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message