Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 17:58:52 -0800 (PST) From: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu> To: gpalmer Cc: hackers Subject: Re: Netscape install of FreeBSD Message-ID: <199604070158.RAA01135@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> 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. I meant the install install, that is, click a button from Netscape running in Windows or Linux and it goes off and partitions your drive, downloads FreeBSD, installs it, sets up the boot manager, asks you some questions and writes the appropriate files onto the newly created BSD ufs, then reboots. This is an example of network software distribution which everyone seems to want to do with the web.
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