From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 8 21:32:04 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 0620216A4CE for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 21:32:04 -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 3068E43D41 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 21:32:02 -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])i095W0qR096624; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 16:02:00 +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 i095VwaW013948; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 16:01:59 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Avleen Vig Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 16:01:57 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200401082334.i08NYMx86020@thistle.bogs.org> <200401091528.11903.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20040109051836.GN53429@silverwraith.com> In-Reply-To: <20040109051836.GN53429@silverwraith.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401091601.57268.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 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 05:32:04 -0000 On Friday 09 January 2004 15:48, Avleen Vig wrote: > > 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? Yeah, that was similar to what I was thinking. You could just get it to make a zip for you to put on a floppy after you select your hardware from a list. -- 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