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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: sysinstall "boot easy" code apparently not the latest version
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Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 17:54:41 PDT
From: Craig Leres <leres@ee.lbl.gov>
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> > I noticed that the version of boot easy that gets installed when you
> > use a standard boot floppy, e.g.:
> > 
> >     http://www.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.2-RELEASE/floppies/boot.flp
> > 
> > is similar to but not the same as the one in:
> > 
> >     http://www.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.2-RELEASE/tools/srcs/bteasy/
> > 
> > Is there a reason for this?
> 
> Yeah, we haven't bothered to re-extract the booteasy bits and encode
> them into sysinstall for a long time. :-)
> 
> Is there any specific feature you're missing from the more up-to-date
> version?

I noticed the new one says "FreeBSD" instead of "BSD" and I like that
better... Also I guess I was expecting the one that gets installed
as part of an installation to match the source in the source tree.

		Craig