From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 6 15:57:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA23480 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 15:57:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA23462 Sat, 6 Apr 1996 15:57:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with SMTP id AAA04738 ; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 00:57:18 +0100 (BST) To: Jeffrey Hsu cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Netscape install of FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 06 Apr 1996 15:45:24 -0800." <199604062345.PAA22645@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 07 Apr 1996 00:57:18 +0100 Message-ID: <4735.828835038@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jeffrey Hsu wrote in message ID <199604062345.PAA22645@freefall.freebsd.org>: > Here's a wild idea for a project: a netscape (or any other browser) > install of FreeBSD. There are a number of technical problems > to solve, but that's left as an exercise for the reader. Actually, already been thought of and tossed around a bit. Well, more specifically, Jordan and I talked a bit about using a WWW browser and CGI scripts to create the configuration manager for post-install stuff like adding/deleting users, changing /etc/sysconfig, etc. This was last summer when we were melting from heat and trying to finish the 2.0.5 installer at the same time. I don't think either of us have had time to do more than toss this around in our heads ever since :-( Gary