From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 15 17:53:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from blues.jpj.net (blues.jpj.net [204.97.17.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1631437B479 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 17:53:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (trevor@localhost) by blues.jpj.net (right/backatcha) with ESMTP id eAG1riB02282; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:53:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:53:44 -0500 (EST) From: Trevor Johnson To: Andrzej Bialecki Cc: Jordan Hubbard , stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE delayed until November 20th. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [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