From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 24 20:09:46 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id UAA08467 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 20:09:46 -0700 Received: from trout.sri.MT.net (trout.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.12]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA08459 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 20:09:41 -0700 Received: (from nate@localhost) by trout.sri.MT.net (8.6.11/8.6.11) id VAA06914; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 21:14:00 -0600 Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 21:14:00 -0600 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199504250314.VAA06914@trout.sri.MT.net> To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer), dgaudet@cs.ubc.ca, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [to Install people] Re: comments on an attempted install In-Reply-To: <199504250222.TAA03771@ref.tfs.com> References: <199504250210.TAA03705@ref.tfs.com> <199504250222.TAA03771@ref.tfs.com> Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 1/ Bindist is FAR too big, and should be broken down to > > a Base, Net, Devel, and Extended set. > > I will say however that it's AMAZING how usable the system is > > after installing just the second floppy.. > No plans presently. Easy to do, but consensus on core against at last > poll. Huh? I remember no such poll, and have constantly pushed for breaking it up. The reason it never happened in the past was for technical reasons. If those reasons no longer exist, *please* break the release into chunks. > > 3/ we need to be able to create other partition types. > no. It may be handy to be able to, but we don't >need< it. Agreed. Any OS you need to install can create it's own partition. No OS I know has the ability to create other partition types, although add-on software allows you to do this. Nate