From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 5 21:52:08 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA09555 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 5 Oct 1995 21:52:08 -0700 Received: from UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU (root@UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU [129.7.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA09550 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 1995 21:52:04 -0700 Received: from Taronga.COM by UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU with UUCP id AA01442 (5.67a/IDA-1.5 for hackers@freebsd.org); Thu, 5 Oct 1995 23:32:15 -0500 Received: (from peter@localhost) by bonkers.taronga.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id XAA15111 for hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 5 Oct 1995 23:21:46 -0500 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Message-Id: <199510060421.XAA15111@bonkers.taronga.com> Subject: Re: Multi-floppy Install (Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation.) To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 23:21:45 -0500 (CDT) In-Reply-To: <199510052046.NAA05605@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Oct 5, 95 01:46:20 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1209 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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.)