Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 12:54:29 +0200 From: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Alexander Langer <alex@usw4.freebsd.org>, libh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: libh/bin/setup/setup fetch.c run.c Makefile get_scripts.c main.c Message-ID: <20000623125429.A3271@cichlids.cichlids.com> In-Reply-To: <3953406C.E7D1B68@newsguy.com>; from dcs@newsguy.com on Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 07:48:12PM %2B0900 References: <200006230941.EAA05986@usw4.freebsd.org> <20000623115043.A1476@cichlids.cichlids.com> <3953406C.E7D1B68@newsguy.com>
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Thus spake Daniel C. Sobral (dcs@newsguy.com): > > One must then only load _one_ floppy, e.g. FTP floppy, HTTP floppy, > > NFS floppy, etc etc, or CD-ROM. > It has been deemed much preferable to have a couple of floppies that can > be used for anything than a number of floppies that can be used for > limited purposes. OK. Then I'll remove the #ifdefs later on and the whole thing is put on two floppies or something. However, that doesn't change the behaviour that setup's first step is to transfer the tclh interpreter & scripts. Or what do you think? I myself HATE it to download three floppies or more, if I could also download one floppy and setup downloads the binaries it uses itself. Did you ever have broken floppies? I always happen to have the second floppy broken, so I've already started the installation and then had to reboot to use a new floppy :) Worst case was the OS/2 installation back some years, where you had to use 4-5 boot-floppies for hte CDROM-install and it took me 2 hours until I got 5 non-broken floppies :)) > BTW, if you can sneak in OpenBSD's naming convention of disk1of2, > disk2of2, I'd like that. :-) ok > /me hopes jkh isn't subscribed to libh heh :) Alex -- cat: /home/alex/.sig: No such file or directory To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message
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