Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:53:44 -0500 (EST) From: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE delayed until November 20th. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.21.0011152049050.1855-100000@blues.jpj.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0011152337500.93255-100000@mx.webgiro.com>
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[following up on the stable list, at David O'Brien's suggestion] > The installation floppies still use too many standard programs, among > others standard /bin/sh. How about changing it to SASH > (/usr/ports/shells/sash)? It contains, among others, gzip and tar. > > Or, use Minix sh. It's quite POSIX-y, and is 1/5th the size of /bin/sh. The Linux folks have something in the same spirit called busybox (http://busybox.lineo.com/). > Sysinstall could also check how much physical RAM is available, and > suggest this step to the user. > Did you try the fdimage.exe which can be found there as well? No--I had failed to read the README.TXT there, which explains that it "supercedes rawrite". -- Trevor Johnson http://jpj.net/~trevor/gpgkey.txt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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