From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 1 17:29:20 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA07249 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 17:29:20 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA07244 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 17:29:18 -0700 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA03243; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 17:28:38 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199510020028.RAA03243@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 17:28:37 -0700 (PDT) Cc: taob@io.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510012343.TAA08602@etinc.com> from "dennis" at Oct 1, 95 07:43:04 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1179 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk remember that what we are suggesting is not that we drop support for this or that, but that we supply a couple of different install versions.. people with 4MB would have to do without SOMETHING... machines with more can use the default install.. > > >On Sat, 30 Sep 1995, dennis wrote: > >> > >> NO!!!!!!!! NFS is the best and fastest way to load semi-custom systems. > > > > I agree, but if we have to choose, I'd lose NFS first too. How > >many first-time users (those who will be baffled the most by the 8-meg > >requirement) have access to an NFS server with the FreeBSD distribution > >ready of installation? > >-- > > > Great Idea! Lets lose the established users who are pushing for the O/S to > support the idiots. Let's eliminate those that are building systems based on > FreeBSD in hopes of luring the occasional one-time user. This is a great > business decision. > > Dennis > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com > > Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For > Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame > Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 > >