Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 08:11:14 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Avleen Vig <lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <20040109211114.GQ25474@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20040109043017.GM53429@silverwraith.com> References: <200401082334.i08NYMx86020@thistle.bogs.org> <200401091404.34083.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20040109043017.GM53429@silverwraith.com>
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On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 08:30:17PM -0800, Avleen Vig wrote: >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. FWIW, Plan-9 ( http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/index.html ) does this: You describe your hardware via a WEB form and the site spits out a boot floppy customised to your hardware. In order for this to be practical, we'd need to avoid having to fully compile a custom kernel - we'd probably need to develop and use the a 'binary distribution' approach (as for all the commercial Unices). Peter
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