From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 9 11: 4:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 168AC37B401 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 11:04:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 679B043EB2 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 11:04:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with ESMTP id <2002120919043000100pof0pe>; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 19:04:30 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gB9J5WBl001027; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 11:05:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id gB9J5QbT001024; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 11:05:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Interest in diskless booting? References: <20021208021835.GI96646@wantadilla.lemis.com> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 09 Dec 2002 11:05:25 -0800 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garance A Drosihn 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