From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 12 17:37:31 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36C14106564A for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:37:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com) Received: from mail2.timeinc.net (mail2.timeinc.net [64.236.74.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7D848FC1D for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:37:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.timeinc.net (timeinc2-lm25.websys.aol.com [64.12.55.166]) by mail2.timeinc.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o6CHbTLp006427 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:37:29 -0400 Received: from ws-mteterin.dev.pathfinder.com (ws-mteterin.dev.pathfinder.com [209.251.223.173]) by mail.timeinc.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id o6CHbTN0026014; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:37:29 -0400 Message-ID: <4C3B52D9.9060602@aldan.algebra.com> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:37:29 -0400 From: "Mikhail T." Organization: Virtual Estates, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; uk; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Vande More References: <4C34C5DE.7040007@aldan.algebra.com> <4C34CA31.7010804@aldan.algebra.com> <4C34E39A.7090905@aldan.algebra.com> <20100708135353.GA43460@icarus.home.lan> <4C35E9D4.8080007@aldan.algebra.com> <20100708164022.GA46433@icarus.home.lan> <4C3618B9.8010202@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: net-booting the install disks (Re: 8.x grudges) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:37:31 -0000 12.07.2010 13:11, Adam Vande More wrote: > Roll it into your media You lost me right here... Rolling one's own media (for every release and release-candidate) may be Ok for someone in charge of making, at least, several installations per week. For someone like myself, who just wanted to use a downloaded CD-image straight (without burning it first), there is got to be a way to use the FreeBSD-distributed images... I'm not asking for the full power offered by "kickstart" et al, I just want the booting image to be a little bit smarter than it already is and do The Right Thing^TM regardless of whether it is booting from the local CD-ROM or remotely. Yours, -mi