From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 29 09:03:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA16148 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 09:03:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA16142 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 09:03:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA25215; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 18:03:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id SAA28972; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 18:03:38 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980929180337.25080@follo.net> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 18:03:37 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Marius Bendiksen Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot creeat boot.std floppy References: <15146.907003057@time.cdrom.com> <19980929161959.03514@follo.net> <3.0.5.32.19980929170124.0091c980@mail.scancall.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980929170124.0091c980@mail.scancall.no>; from Marius Bendiksen on Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 05:01:24PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 05:01:24PM +0200, Marius Bendiksen wrote: > >> Aw come on, I can see the need for lpt0 (I've installed over LPIP a > >> couple of times myself), but mse0/psm0? > > >They are used for configuring moused. > > Wouldn't it be possible to split the system configuration into two > portion, where the first could do the actual installation, and the > other would then take care of the configuration, then remove itself > from the rc files or wherever you would put it? This would probably > cut the bootdisk size drastically. The patches supposed to come with this message got lost somehow. Could you please re-submit (preferably using send-pr)? (Your suggestion has been put forwards by other before, and I believe there to be fairly wide agreement that the split is the way to go - however, nobody has yet actually Done The Work). Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message