From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 9 06:57:30 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA24786 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 06:57:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.atl.bellsouth.net (mail1.atl.bellsouth.net [205.152.0.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA24780; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 06:57:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wghicks@bellsouth.net) Received: from wghicks.bellsouth.net (host-209-214-66-114.atl.bellsouth.net [209.214.66.114]) by mail1.atl.bellsouth.net (8.8.8-spamdog/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA24441; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 09:57:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wghicks.bellsouth.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA40403; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:14:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net) To: jb@cimlogic.com.au Cc: sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, jabley@clear.co.nz, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/ In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 9 Feb 1999 17:18:35 +1100 (EST)" <199902090618.RAA03960@cimlogic.com.au> References: <199902090618.RAA03960@cimlogic.com.au> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.93 on XEmacs 20.4 (Emerald) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19990209101434E.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 10:14:34 -0500 From: W Gerald Hicks X-Dispatcher: imput version 980905(IM100) Lines: 33 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: John Birrell > Or convince FreeBSD developers to simply add a DHCP client to the base > sources and build a boot/install floppy with that functionality. > No user cost. No user hassle. Why not?! Sigh. Agree that this should be done for now. Absolutely. In the long run, an extensible sysinstall will help with these matters. I haven't really examined them yet, but feel safe in assuming that there is a fair amount of unused space on the two floppy installation diskette set. It shouldn't be necessary to extract everything that might ship on these floppies for every user. I'm not certain what the minimum installation footprint is right now but would probably be safe in assuming that it is growing. I sincerely believe that getting the filesystem layering code into shape is a good first step toward a more flexible sysinstall. Cheers, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net > -- > John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ > CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message