Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:04:45 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel gigabit driver Message-ID: <XFMail.011129080445.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20011129100209.A42016@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
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On 29-Nov-01 Leo Bicknell wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 09:34:37PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: >> CDROM installs are most likely going to use cdldr soon so we will have the >> entire module suite available from loader. For boot floppies we should >> probably use the one that is smaller on disk.. but we also have the the >> embryonic "driver disk" in the pipeline for real floppy installs. > > Not to get too far afield, but I might suggest the install people > consider some middle ground. > > Right now I can mess with floppies for an install, or download a > 600+ Meg ISO image to burn CD's. It would be extremly useful if > I could download a 5-10 Meg ISO image for a CD that was essentially > the floppy install (eg, download everything over the net), without > having to wait for a 600 M download to finish over a slow link. Yes, it's called the mini-iso and is basically the first CD w/o any ports or packages. The last one I built for current that didn't include Xfree86 was about 200 Meg. That also didn't include the ports collection or any of the docs. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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