From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 20 19:27:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA07968 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 19:27:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from minor.stranger.com (stranger.vip.best.com [204.156.129.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA07960 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 19:27:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dog.farm.org (dog.farm.org [207.111.140.47]) by minor.stranger.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA12663; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 19:31:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dk@localhost) by dog.farm.org (8.7.5/dk#3) id TAA13931; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 19:30:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 19:30:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk Message-Id: <199709210230.TAA13931@dog.farm.org> To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Different kernels for the bindist and boot.flp? Newsgroups: cs-monolit.gated.lists.freebsd.hackers Organization: FARM Computing Association Reply-To: dk+@ua.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199709181750.TAA02619@yedi.iaf.nl> you wrote: > > > This is why I was thinking about seperating the bin dist into a bin dist and > > > a kernel dist. The new bin dist contains everything non-kernel specific, > > > the kernel dists each contain one kernel with support for a specific set of > > > features, and the kernel config file used to create them. > > > > This rapidly reduces to supplying the kernel sources and a text editor. > > The alternative is a million different kernel distributions, which are > > nothing short of a terror to maintain. > There is already a name for this. It's called 'Linux' ;-) Yes, and in Linux, you can take any kernel you want, and boot from it, and then use the same root disk as you have used for installing your system on `standard' hardware. Without making release. Yikes, you can even boot from the same 2 floppies, get a shell, and then mount your hard drive and repair any hard errors. What's more, you can specify root disk and kernel disk separately. Linux, in fact, sucks ;-) -- EXCLUSIONS. This warranty does not cover the following: ... 3. Damages caused by ... external causes such as abuse, misuse, inadequate power supply or acts of God. -- Westinghouse refrigerator manual (submitted by sia@nest.org)