Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 17:26:59 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: There was PicoBSD - let there be a Mini... Message-ID: <199804190027.RAA06092@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Apr 1998 22:35:46 %2B0200." <Pine.NEB.3.95.980418220717.3473A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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> Here's what the setup would be like: > > * the whole installation (available in sysinstall :-) would place FreeBSD > on an existing DOS partition. Installation program would create the file > with filesystem on it (which will then be mounted on a vn(4) device). This > will require (well, it depends) ca. 16-24MB of free space on a DOS > partition. Sounds reasonable. Why limit yourself though? Given the disk sizes common today, why not allow the user to select the size they want? > * then the special distribution set would be transferred to the vn-mounted > file. This distribution would contain (among others): basic system > utilities, pretty minimal XWindow with SVGA server and a nice window > manager (qvwm?) with file manager (FreeBSD Explorer?); and of course > Netscape/Mozilla browser with Java. If you're going to offer a canned distribution set, it would be much simpler to just install it once locally, then zip up the bootstrap, kernel and image file (perhaps with a custom once-off /etc/rc that asks the config questions) and offer *that* for download. ... > Well, that's basically the whole idea. How do you like it? Do it! Very neat. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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