From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Oct 25 13:40:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE34137B4C5; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 13:40:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e9PKaaO90464; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 06:06:36 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 06:06:36 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Wilko Bulte , "John W. De Boskey" , Warner Losh , obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/scripts dokern.sh Message-ID: <20001026060636.B90340@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20001024140437.C19518@dragon.nuxi.com> <200010241848.LAA22095@freefall.freebsd.org> <200010242052.OAA19159@harmony.village.org> <20001024140437.C19518@dragon.nuxi.com> <200010242122.PAA19397@harmony.village.org> <20001024182832.A55202@bsdwins.com> <20001024190802.D59218@citusc17.usc.edu> <20001025195029.B6807@freebie.demon.nl> <20001025105941.A51512@citusc17.usc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20001025105941.A51512@citusc17.usc.edu>; from kris@citusc17.usc.edu on Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 10:59:41AM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 25 October 2000 at 10:59:41 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 07:50:29PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > >>> We need to add back random.ko either to the install kernel, or at >>> least have it loaded from somewhere by the time packages are added. >> >> Or remove the possibility of adding packages during floppy-booted sysinstall >> altogether. Why not have people install their packages crud while first-time >> booted from the harddisk? > > I think a lot of people use this feature. It would be interesting to see how many people still do install from floppy. Once we have installed the base, though, we should have the modules available, even if they're in a different location. Am I missing something? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message