Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 16:10:38 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Avleen Vig <lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <20040108221038.GN48603@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <20040108153610.GW53429@silverwraith.com> References: <20040107235737.I32227@pooker.samsco.home> <20040108143934.GA51446@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <20040108153610.GW53429@silverwraith.com>
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On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 07:36:10AM -0800 I heard the voice of Avleen Vig, and lo! it spake thus: > > If I understand you right.. > A floppy boot, which loads the absolutely basic stuff (network drivers, > and some easy way to config the network) and then goes and grabs the > installer would otherwise be on the current floppies and "boots" it? Many (most?) Linux dists do this for floppy installs. I've come around to thinking it a better and better idea lately. It makes it easy to have much more bloa... er, "featureful" installers, particularly more graphical ones, since you're no longer limited by the size of a floppy. And even cheap DSL is faster than a floppy drive for loading it, to boot (no pun ;). And you can even provide for loading it off a local CD, if you have a CD drive you can't boot from. The downside is that writing such a beast is a lot more work... -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"
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