Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 16:01:57 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.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: <200401091601.57268.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20040109051836.GN53429@silverwraith.com> References: <200401082334.i08NYMx86020@thistle.bogs.org> <200401091528.11903.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20040109051836.GN53429@silverwraith.com>
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On Friday 09 January 2004 15:48, Avleen Vig wrote: > > Yep, > > I suspect mtools is the easiest way to do this.. > > Something that was suggested in #FreeBSDHelp on EFnet just now: > sysinstall already has the ability to dynamically load modules. > If this is the case, I don't see where the "problem" is. > Make the kernel on the floppy disk have few/no drivers built in, and > have then all loaded from a third disk. > Have the third disk generated dynamically from say, a website? Yeah, that was similar to what I was thinking. You could just get it to make a zip for you to put on a floppy after you select your hardware from a list. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5
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