From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 16 02:21:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA10671 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 May 1996 02:21:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA10644 for ; Thu, 16 May 1996 02:21:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA16308 for ; Thu, 16 May 1996 11:21:12 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA14458 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 16 May 1996 11:21:12 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id LAA00463 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 16 May 1996 11:14:58 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605160914.LAA00463@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: errros on making floppies To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 11:14:58 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <4311.832160545@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "May 15, 96 04:42:25 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Don't call it `root'. The current root floppy is a simple cpio > > archive with the tools needed to install the system. Re-using this > > name for something else would only increase the level of confusion. > > Actually, I was thinking about renaming that guy anyway, ever since he > became essentially nothing more than a very small distribution, like > bin or doc. ;-) That doesn't mean we should immediately ``recycle'' the name ``root floppy'' for something totally different. This would cause nothing but major confusion to many users. If we ship 2.2 without a root.flp, we need a `quarantine' period so we can use this name for something different as early as 2.3 again. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)