Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 16:13:12 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Dean <brdean@mindspring.com> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: brdean@mindspring.com, jwd@unx.sas.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make release (almost) No space left on device Message-ID: <199901032113.QAA68859@vger.foo.com> In-Reply-To: <199901032043.MAA07228@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Jan 3, 1999 12:43:50 pm"
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> > > Maybe we can move to having a network installation floppy and a > > > disk media installation floppy... I personally do not want to see > > > a multidisk boot process. I've used it on other systems, and it > > > really hurts. > > > > I second this suggestion. > > > > Please avoid having a two (or more - ouch!) floppy install process. I > > typically install up to 30 machines at a time and a two floppy install > > will make this chore almost unbearable! > > We'll do what we can, but consider using a bootable CDROM instead of > floppies for your installs. Much faster. > > There's a limit to what we can pack onto a floppy, unfortunately. 8( I only use the floppy to boot. For the distribution media, I use NFS or FTP from a local server. I generate 30 or so boot floppies with a sysinstall configuration file for each system and boot them all in parallel. If I don't install the ports, I can usually be completely done with all of the machines in less than 40 minutes. A multiple floppy boot would throw this off quite a bit, and I could never do it in that amount of time by visiting each machine sequentially with a CDROM boot (and I can't reasonably burn 30 CD's). Every day you keep the single-floppy boot, you have my gratitude! -Brian -- Brian Dean brdean@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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