From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 29 8: 5: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2B5137B447 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:04:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 22577 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2001 16:05:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 29 Nov 2001 16:05:15 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011129100209.A42016@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:04:45 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Leo Bicknell Subject: Re: Intel gigabit driver Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 29-Nov-01 Leo Bicknell wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 09:34:37PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: >> CDROM installs are most likely going to use cdldr soon so we will have the >> entire module suite available from loader. For boot floppies we should >> probably use the one that is smaller on disk.. but we also have the the >> embryonic "driver disk" in the pipeline for real floppy installs. > > Not to get too far afield, but I might suggest the install people > consider some middle ground. > > Right now I can mess with floppies for an install, or download a > 600+ Meg ISO image to burn CD's. It would be extremly useful if > I could download a 5-10 Meg ISO image for a CD that was essentially > the floppy install (eg, download everything over the net), without > having to wait for a 600 M download to finish over a slow link. Yes, it's called the mini-iso and is basically the first CD w/o any ports or packages. The last one I built for current that didn't include Xfree86 was about 200 Meg. That also didn't include the ports collection or any of the docs. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message