From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 6 08:09:57 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA29959 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 08:09:57 -0800 Received: from eel.dataplex.net (EEL.DATAPLEX.NET [199.183.109.245]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA29953 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 08:09:53 -0800 Received: from [199.183.109.242] (cod [199.183.109.242]) by eel.dataplex.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA04970; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 10:09:34 -0600 X-Sender: rkw@shark.dataplex.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 10:09:45 -0600 To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) From: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Subject: Re: More nits Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk At 9:51 AM 11/6/95, Greg Lehey wrote: >Richard Wackerbarth writes: >> >> >We gotta give these guys a way of installing.... >> >> I'd rather see us go back to a two floppy boot for this case. >> Strip the MFS out and put sysinstall on a floppy. >> >> Use that much to format the HD and then switch to it. > >Great idea. That way we don't need hundreds of different tiny >kernels. Any chance of getting it done for 2.1? As far as the number of "tiny kernels", I am not sure that even this idea would solve the problem. However, I know that it will be much easier to make the required kernel if it is the only file on the floppy and I don't have to remake the rest of the system to do the custom bootstrap. As for 2.1, I am sure it is too late for 2.1.0-RELEASE, but I see no reason why it could not go into -stable immediately thereafter. ---- Richard Wackerbarth rkw@dataplex.net