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Date:      Thu, 16 May 1996 11:14:58 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: errros on making floppies
Message-ID:  <199605160914.LAA00463@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <4311.832160545@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "May 15, 96 04:42:25 am"

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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > Don't call it `root'.  The current root floppy is a simple cpio
> > archive with the tools needed to install the system.  Re-using this
> > name for something else would only increase the level of confusion.
> 
> Actually, I was thinking about renaming that guy anyway, ever since he
> became essentially nothing more than a very small distribution, like
> bin or doc. ;-)

That doesn't mean we should immediately ``recycle'' the name ``root
floppy'' for something totally different.  This would cause nothing
but major confusion to many users.  If we ship 2.2 without a root.flp,
we need a `quarantine' period so we can use this name for something
different as early as 2.3 again.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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