Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 29 Sep 1998 18:03:37 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Marius Bendiksen <Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Cannot creeat boot.std floppy
Message-ID:  <19980929180337.25080@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980929170124.0091c980@mail.scancall.no>; from Marius Bendiksen on Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 05:01:24PM %2B0200
References:  <xzphfxr2oip.fsf@yggdrasil.ifi.uio.no> <15146.907003057@time.cdrom.com> <xzphfxr2oip.fsf@yggdrasil.ifi.uio.no> <19980929161959.03514@follo.net> <3.0.5.32.19980929170124.0091c980@mail.scancall.no>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19980929180337.25080>