From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 11 03:18:20 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA17196 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 03:18:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles351.castles.com [208.214.167.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA17191 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 03:18:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA90541; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 03:14:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901111114.DAA90541@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Andrzej Bialecki cc: Mike Smith , 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: Your message of "Mon, 11 Jan 1999 12:17:24 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 03:14:03 -0800 From: Mike Smith 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... Only as a "wizard" facility, so that people with eg. lots of NFS installs to do could copy the NFS .ko module onto the first floppy to avoid floppy-swapping. You might do this by putting the cd9660 .ko on the first floppy, and allowing people to nuke it to make space. This still needs lots of thought, obviously, but it seems to be the only way we can go. I wonder if Justin would be up to turning CAM into a set of KLD modules? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message