From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 11 03:14:05 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA16769 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 03:14:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [195.187.243.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA16764 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 03:14:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA13798; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 12:17:24 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 12:17:24 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Mike Smith cc: John Hay , dfr@nlsystems.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, jwd@unx.sas.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot.flp doesn't In-Reply-To: <199901111059.CAA90448@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > Wait a moment. If we really want to go this way, why don't put the whole > > bunch of modules on a second floppy, and cut down the kernel size by half? > > That was the plan. NFS is a good start. Ideally, we should leave a > little room on the first floppy so that people can customise it to > avoid needing two floppies... When you say "customizing", do you mean that they be able to put required modules on the first floppy? This IMHO would beg for a sysinstall submenu - I'm not sure how many (l)users would be comfortable with mount, cp, rm etc... Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message