Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 16:31:02 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson <stuart@internationalschool.co.uk> To: dwilde1@ibm.net Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: makes you wonder... Message-ID: <353CBBB6.9D26A329@internationalschool.co.uk> References: <199804181916.VAA14407@yedi.iaf.nl> <19980418213331.18062@jraynard.demon.co.uk> <35398553.F354E2DF@ibm.net> <19980419103704.62237@jraynard.demon.co.uk> <353C8D33.27BA1FD@internationalschool.co.uk> <353CB156.3B1FDDB9@ibm.net>
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Don Wilde wrote: > > Most editors won't budge unless they get an accomplished fact thrust > into their faces. We'll have to build the CD ourselves, then I'm sure > they'd be glad to do it. I agree there - if we could get something together (maybe with an autorun from Windows using fbsdboot :-) they would know what they're getting then! > A PPP script is a little tricky, because there are so mny variations > in ISP's, especially now that M$ has mucked up the picture with their > own ideas of how things should work. One good thing that came out of that, is that most internet providers in the UK support CHAP. All the ones I know about do anyway (about 175,000 users between them). Maybe ppp needs to fetch the IP address for the DNS server though, I'll ask Brian what he thinks :-) > I would prefer Java to Perl, but I haven't had enough time to sit > down and dig into the JDK yet to understand its ramifications. There's a lot that can be done with perl, plus it has the advantage you can use Lynx as well :-) > FreeBSD config'd to copy root filesystem into ramdisk There was a nice 'copycache' system on Linux-FT, it installed a minimal system to HD and copied other files as required. This was used on the Linux disk they did, you chose how much disk space you wanted to use and it did the rest for you. I'll see if I can find my copy of the disk and have a look if it's at all portable although thanks to MS most people will have big enough hard drives anyway :-) (anyone know if FIPS does fat32 yet? If not, that needs to be looked at as well - people would be reluctant to reformat drives or pay for PartitionMagic even if FreeBSD is free). A preconfigured samba would be nice as well, setup for home directories and /tmp maybe. Have to check with Netscape about distribution as well 'cos v5 just isn't going to cut it if we want it to look stable :-) ISTR they let pretty much anyone distribute nowadays though so it might not be a problem. > with the tools we give them. Now, if we could do PPP and actually > bootstrap them into DL the real FreeBSD onto their HDD... :)))) I don't think that would be popular here, we have to pay for all phone calls :( I'd love to try and get this together, I just have to get my hard drive back from work so I can play around again...(out of fileserver space again and the new drive hasn't arrived yet!) Stuart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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