Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 14:34:07 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> Cc: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, Adam Turoff <aturoff@isinet.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd vs. linux and NT chart Message-ID: <4.1.19990302142419.00adaba0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <19990302132052.C18602@orcrist.mediacity.com> References: <4.1.19990302134418.00a12530@localhost> <4.1.19990302132445.040f6d40@localhost> <Pine.HPP.3.96.990302153710.22218Z-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes .com> <4.1.19990302134418.00a12530@localhost>
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At 01:20 PM 3/2/99 -0800, Gregory Sutter wrote: >Well, Brett, if you can't fit a generic kernel and networking code on >the same disk, then you can't reach out to your installation media in >the first place. Given that the older installation disks contained that and also much more, I find it hard to believe that a newer one couldn't do so as well. Admittedly, it might require using a kernel that omitted some device support to get at those things, but that's not a problem; you don't need (for example) MS-DOS file system support or magtape support in an installation kernel. >Having two floppies is far far better than having >different floppies for different types of installations (e.g. the >network install floppies, the cdrom install floppy, the nullmodem >install floppy (ouch), etc.). Actually, having a separate CD-ROM install floppy would be fine, because it'd be easy to generate it from the CD-ROM if need be. People doing network installs would generate their floppies from the Net. But I think that even this just MIGHT be avoidable if the install kernel were simply streamlined for installation. >The goal is not to leapfrog Linux or any other operating system. The goal is always to improve the system's usability. And in this case, it's a very worthy goal to leapfrog Linux as well. The BSDs have been unfairly maligned by the Linux "faithful" and need a boost. >The goal is to provide the best possible OS. The best possible OS would install from one floppy at most. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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