From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 14 17:35:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4243837B670; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 17:35:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeppo.feral.com (IDENT:mjacob@zeppo [192.67.166.71]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA08180; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 17:35:38 -0700 Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 17:32:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Mike Smith Cc: Jordan Hubbard , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Our kernel just got too big again. :) In-Reply-To: <200010150034.e9F0Ysf00965@mass.osd.bsdi.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 > > The problem with such an approach is that it's not very user-friendly > > to first-time installers who have no idea how to drive the loader. > > Most of the relevant modules can actually be tried by sysinstall. In the > CD case we can just put them on the CDROM. I'd be inclined to look for > somewhere that you can fit ~110k and put nfs.ko.gz there. 8) I was thinking about making sure that drivers that would get you to your install media would be what you'd load- nothing else. This would include network drivers... > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message