From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 8 14:58: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80BD037B400; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:58:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A24B43E72; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:58:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0394.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.43.139] helo=mindspring.com) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17cvI3-0002aG-00; Thu, 08 Aug 2002 14:57:56 -0700 Message-ID: <3D52E930.495196E7@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 14:57:04 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> Cc: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3 floppy system for -current releases References: <200208081855.g78ItZ966903@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> <3D52C2DB.F81E78F6@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: <freebsd-current.FreeBSD.ORG> List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive) List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-current> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-current> X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > But then everyone needs to boot with 3 floppies. With my way, we can > > hopefully select the optimum so that most people will only need 2 > > floppies, ie the most popular drivers should go on mfsroot.flp. > > Both approaches have its own advantages and disadvantages. IMO, big > disadvantage of your method is that user needs to know which drivers > he really wants, which makes installation less fool-prof for novice > users. Give feedback on hardware without drivers. Keep inserting floppies until there isn't any. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message