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From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit:  src/release Makefile src/release/sysinstall attr.c cdrom.c
To: jkh@freefall.freebsd.org (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 07:49:13 +0200 (MET DST)
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

>   Log:
>   Come up with a scheme for stamping the FreeBSD version number on CDs,
>   allowing sysinstall to automagically detect, mount and select an
>   appropriate FreeBSD CDROM as the installation media.  Defining "appropriate"
>   also requires that you check the version numbers since an older FreeBSD
>   CD could be in the drive, which is the purpose of this patch.

Can't say i particularly love this (if i read it right).  By now, it
was possible to point the people to use an older or newer boot floppy
if this was required for some reason.  (There's always a reason for a
newer boot floppy, in case there's some driver now enabled by default
that was not already there in the latest release.  If the driver is
essential for the installation, it helps people bootstrapping to a
system where they can manually recompile later.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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