From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 8 20:58:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8728016A4CE for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 20:58:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0CCE43D54 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 20:58:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from midget.dons.net.au (ppp108-195.lns1.adl1.internode.on.net [150.101.108.195])i094wEqR048489; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 15:28:14 +1030 (CST) Received: from chowder.gsoft.com.au (root@localhost.dons.net.au [127.0.0.1]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i094wCaW013665; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 15:28:12 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Avleen Vig Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 15:28:11 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200401082334.i08NYMx86020@thistle.bogs.org> <200401091404.34083.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20040109043017.GM53429@silverwraith.com> In-Reply-To: <20040109043017.GM53429@silverwraith.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401091528.11903.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -5 () IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.26 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: hackers@freebsd.org cc: Greg Shenaut Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 04:58:22 -0000 On Friday 09 January 2004 15:00, Avleen Vig wrote: > > onto floppy disks easily so users can grab what they need and use it > > instead of having to second guess what sort of hardware they are likely > > to be using. IMHO of course 8-) > > Now you've got me thinking. > A simple website which lets you choose what drivers you want (anyone > seen the .muttrc config page? :) > That should be really easy to do with a little perl CGI. > I might take a crack at this in the next week or so. Yep, I suspect mtools is the easiest way to do this.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5