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To: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.1 release sysinstall 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 23 Nov 1995 16:36:20 PST."
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Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 01:07:28 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Given that the current sysinstall has a list of FreeBSD mirror sites 
> from where one can do a net install, shouldn't net install be able to pick 
> a site based on net response to do the site sites and load on the 
> target system?

Uh.  I can't parse this?

> It would be very, very, nice to allow an option to  mount  a second
> drive to do an install from ...

To install on a second drive?  Easy - just stick your root and /usr
over there in the label editor and extract as usual onto it.

To install *from* a second drive?  Easy - see the UFS "media" type.

					Jordan