From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 7 18:08:46 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id SAA03151 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 7 Jan 1995 18:08:46 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA03145 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 1995 18:08:45 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA00271; Sat, 7 Jan 1995 18:07:58 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: time.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Wankle Rotary Engine cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Graphical installations and such... In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 07 Jan 95 20:03:27 EST." <199501080103.UAA05523@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Date: Sat, 07 Jan 1995 18:07:57 -0800 Message-ID: <270.789530877@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Er, no no no. I'm sorry: I should have been clearer. By boot disk, I > meant boot _floppy_. In order to provide a complete graphical install, > you have to start up X right away, but I can't see how to do that with > only a floppy install. I can only see two options: > > 1) Have a text install that partitions the disk and loads the second > stage install, which can include the X server and whatnot, then > start the graphical install only after the user boots from the hard > disk for the first time. That was exactly what I had in mind. > 2) Use the boot floppy to mount the CD-ROM as the rootfs, which will > give you as much space as you need. (But no virtual memory.) And that too! :-) > I thought the idea was to dump the user into a graphical install > at step one. I'm just wondering how you plan to do this. No, I'm sorry if I gave that impression as well. My first idea as that we only use X for configuration and package management. You won't initially set up your partitions that way! :-) Jordan