From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 24 12:33: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F56A37B400; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:32:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF77F43E72; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:32:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6OJWupO005379; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:32:56 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g6OJWu20005378; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:32:56 -0700 Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:32:56 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: John Baldwin Cc: Makoto Matsushita , current@FreeBSD.ORG, ru@FreeBSD.ORG, jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/i386 drivers.conf Message-ID: <20020724123256.A2494@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20020725033145Y.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from jhb@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 03:03:44PM -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 03:03:44PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: >=20 > On 24-Jul-2002 Makoto Matsushita wrote: > >=20 > > jhay> nfsclient.ko and msdosfs.ko exists nowadays, so in theory it can > > jhay> reside somewhere else. > >=20 > > It seems that it's time to make the 3rd floppy for kernel modules... >=20 > We could start using cdboot for CD installs, and then just tailor the > floppy installs a bit to people who don't normally use CD for installs. > I.e, favor network drivers over CD drivers. If we do this, can we please kill the mfsroot image? Having the files actually in the ISO image may be a bit less space efficent, but it should make the image a lot more PXE friendly. It's currently possiable to boot a system by pointing NFS and tftp at a mounted CD, but some things are weird because / ends up being the MFS root instead of the CD so you have to do an NFS install. It does work though. -- Brooks P.S. A totally awsome feature to add to the CD/DVD would be enough server support to boot a CD and hit a "make me an install server" button and have a PXE server running. --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9PwDoXY6L6fI4GtQRAtTmAKCNcp4QdIOWHCxlyirdnbGy9R/YxACbBYEa LWNb2qZCTdSq8lAyh6GAwR8= =SRKU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message