Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 18:54:42 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu@freefall.freebsd.org>, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape install of FreeBSD Message-ID: <199604070154.SAA26621@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 06 Apr 1996 16:32:06 PST
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: No kidding.. :-) Actually, I'd be happy with something (that may or may not be web based) that I can run on my current system and have it generate the needed junk to do a seemless upgrade. From past converstations, this would likely be a generated tcl script that would just call install things and have them do the right thing. How hard would that be to do? Heck, we could even generate custom boot disks with this stuff on it that could be used by an automatic boot disk generator web page. That is assuming that the vn stuff I saw lately works well enough to mount files. For the truly evil minded, it could be a java script that you download that querries the system configuration and then generates a filled in form that could be sent to a CGI program that would create a boot disk for you to download (which said java program could then download, and maybe even write to the floppy). Warner P.S. I notice that the Caldera stuff I got recently had two boot disks that seemed to be needed to boot linux. I was very happy to see we just need one now. :-)
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