Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 01:13:01 GMT From: jbg@masterplan.org (Jason George) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Add smbclient to root crunch for installs? Message-ID: <199904110111.TAA19427@gongshow.masterplan.org>
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I guess, by this way of thinking, that using the "used-to-be-called Rumba/now-called Sharity-light" port is also a possibility. Comparing file sizes, it looks like Sharity (I have the older Rumba installed) is a lot more compact than is SMBclient. > ls -l /usr/local/bin/smbclient -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 244731 May 20 1998 /usr/local/bin/smbclient > ls -l /usr/local/sbin/*rumba* -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 69632 Jun 7 1998 /usr/local/sbin/rumba -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 8192 Jun 7 1998 /usr/local/sbin/unrumba > Just some food for thought... --Jason j.b.george<at>ieee.org jbg<at>masterplan.org >It's certainly a possibility... If somebody's got some space to >test make release, they can try hacking the mfsroot crunch config >file and building smbclient into it. There would be some dependency >issues, of course, since samba isn't part of the base system. > >- Jordan > >> Since 3.1-RELEASE has gone to 2 floppies, it somehow hit my mind >> today that it ought to be possible to hack the installation >> program to use smbclient to fetch installation tarballs from >> a shared CDROM on a nearby Microsoft machine (my love for >> Microsoft is low, but for many users there often is one >> nearby :-/ ). >> >> I have done no research yet on how this might be achieved. >> I just wanted to mention it here first to see if it was a >> fruitful line of inquiry or not. >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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