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To: Marius Bendiksen <Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no>
cc: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Cannot creeat boot.std floppy 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Sep 1998 17:01:24 +0200."
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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 10:04:54 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> 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.

Yes, it would be possible.  Even desirable.  We've thought about
it quite a bit.  Before 3.0-RELEASE, however?  No. :-)

- Jordan

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