Date: 09 Dec 2002 11:05:25 -0800 From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Interest in diskless booting? Message-ID: <x7smx7vwqy.mx7@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <p05200f36ba1974ec3ec8@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20021208021835.GI96646@wantadilla.lemis.com> <mkwumkw7se.umk@localhost.localdomain> <p05200f36ba1974ec3ec8@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> writes: > Besides, if you had a nice book with an accurate and detailed info > on how to do build such systems, then you wouldn't have to waste > any time searching those web sites... :-) You missed the whole point of my message: The very existance of people's well-meaning presentations of their version of accurate and detailed info on the subject causes people to waste time when the picobsd manpage suits their needs just fine. Those articles and web sites would have served me (and I suppose many others) better by simply saying: "RTFM for picobsd". But rather than discouraging documentation, I guess I'll just plead for good document introductions (which cross-reference other documents and manpages, etc) which allow people to avoid reading a lot of stuff they don't need for their particular use. (Most of the stuff I referred to actually used picobsd, but wrapped a mostly-wasteful layer of author-customized use and documentation around it.) I recognize that picobsd doesn't suit everyone's needs, but probably most. IIRC, it allows any number of modifications and additions to the default configuration including installation of large systems on CDs. If Greg is considering the documentation of an entirely non-picobsd diskless scheme, I think his target audience will be much smaller than his original question's responses might imply. And I hope he too will help his readers choose whether they should read about his non-picobsd scheme or the picobsd manpage, so they don't have to learn the hard way. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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