From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 8 21:18:38 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 3108316A4CE for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 21:18:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from pear.silverwraith.com (66-214-182-79.la-cbi.charterpipeline.net [66.214.182.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AA4643D45 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 21:18:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com) Received: from avleen by pear.silverwraith.com with local (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1Aep2a-000KUy-R6; Thu, 08 Jan 2004 21:18:36 -0800 Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 21:18:36 -0800 From: Avleen Vig To: Daniel O'Connor Message-ID: <20040109051836.GN53429@silverwraith.com> References: <200401082334.i08NYMx86020@thistle.bogs.org> <200401091404.34083.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20040109043017.GM53429@silverwraith.com> <200401091528.11903.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200401091528.11903.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i cc: hackers@freebsd.org 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 05:18:38 -0000 On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 03:28:11PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > 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.. Something that was suggested in #FreeBSDHelp on EFnet just now: sysinstall already has the ability to dynamically load modules. If this is the case, I don't see where the "problem" is. Make the kernel on the floppy disk have few/no drivers built in, and have then all loaded from a third disk. Have the third disk generated dynamically from say, a website?