Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 12:17:24 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>, dfr@nlsystems.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, jwd@unx.sas.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot.flp doesn't Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9901111213310.9960-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <199901111059.CAA90448@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > Wait a moment. If we really want to go this way, why don't put the whole > > bunch of modules on a second floppy, and cut down the kernel size by half? > > That was the plan. NFS is a good start. Ideally, we should leave a > little room on the first floppy so that people can customise it to > avoid needing two floppies... When you say "customizing", do you mean that they be able to put required modules on the first floppy? This IMHO would beg for a sysinstall submenu - I'm not sure how many (l)users would be comfortable with mount, cp, rm etc... Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- <abial@nask.pl> ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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