From owner-cvs-all Sun Jul 16 15:54:19 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CFB137B662; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 15:54:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@cup.hp.com) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel3.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A8D3772; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 15:54:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cup.hp.com (p1000180.nsr.hp.com [15.109.0.180]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id PAA04266; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 15:54:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39723D11.94BA424@cup.hp.com> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 15:54:09 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Peter Wemm , "David O'Brien" , Kris Kennaway , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/scripts dokern.sh References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > What about (down)loading kernel modules from the installation medium? > > Well, this will always be an issue if you support a long list of h/w. But > basically you want to be able to get enough modules to run install. That means > base platform, VGA/KBD, Serial Port I/O, UFS && CD9660 && NFS, Mass Storage > drivers, and 'simple' Network drivers. There's a lot of stuff in addition to > this that does *not* need to be in the install set. > > The 'installation' medium may just be floppy. Let's not require folks to have > to have a CDROM present and attached. By installation medium I mean the installation medium the user can select in sysinstall (ie FTP, NFS, TAPE, CD). This means that you need as much hardware support for sysinstall to run *and* to access the selected installation medium. -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message