Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 23:21:45 -0500 (CDT) From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multi-floppy Install (Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation.) Message-ID: <199510060421.XAA15111@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199510052046.NAA05605@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Oct 5, 95 01:46:20 pm
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> The One floppy install is now a slight mis-nomer > it is a 1++ floppy install > boot on it > and usr the 'fixit' option to mount a second floppy with whatever > you want on it.. (new kernel, additional utilities, whatever) That's a good start, but it goes the wrong direction... the problem is, how do you install with a custom kernel rather than custom tools? Just documenting the existing mechanism would be a start... Like... what's the reason for uuencoding libgcc.so.261.0 ????? Where did that come from? /usr/src/release/Makefile is a wondrous thing to behold... when I was fighting with installing the system I looked in there and sort of yelped... (Jordan, I'm not belittling the acheivement... I'm just utterly at sea here. It's definitely rocket science... I'm also fully aware that it's agonizingly close to 2.1, too close for changes... But it's a beautiful technical solution to a problem that doesn't need to be solved. Installing off a single floppy is clever, but do people really need it? I've been doing install-kit patches for weird hardware since Xenix 3.5 in the 1987 time frame, and it's frustrating to be unable to go in and easily modify things or roll a new kernel.)
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