From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 18 17:29:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA08389 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 17:29:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles324.castles.com [208.214.167.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA08372 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 00:29:44 GMT (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA06092; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 17:27:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804190027.RAA06092@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Andrzej Bialecki cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: There was PicoBSD - let there be a Mini... In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 18 Apr 1998 22:35:46 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 17:26:59 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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