From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 23 18: 8:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C375137B400; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 18:08:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0159.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.159] helo=mindspring.com) by snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16TZJn-0004EB-00; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 18:08:47 -0800 Message-ID: <3C4F6CAB.76D9CAE2@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 18:08:43 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nik Clayton Cc: David Schultz , "f.johan.beisser" , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Intaller (was "Re: ... RedHat ...") References: <20020123114658.A514@lpt.ens.fr> <20020123091107.T32624-100000@localhost> <20020123124025.A60889@HAL9000.wox.org> <3C4F5BEE.294FDCF5@mindspring.com> <20020124014413.F53456@clan.nothing-going-on.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nik Clayton wrote: > You, or anyone else, are free to create their own installer and/or > related technologies. You can create your own FreeBSD distro if you want, > and go and market it. > > But you must also include, somewhere, the project's installation > routine, and provide a mechanism that lets the end user choose what gets > run. How about we call this mechanism "buying CDROM A instead of CDROM B"? > For example, you might ship on CDROM, and include the project's floppy > disk images, and instructions on how to use them to create a "FreeBSD > Project" install. This is actually the first time this particular option has been raised as "permissable". > Or you could describe how the user can interrupt the > boot process and change the init path variable to point to sysinstall > instead of your own installer. Not workable, due to CDROM boot image size restrictions. > But you can make your installer the default if you want. Just make sure > they can get to the project's installer as well. There's still the problem that it isn't *you* who are allowed to make these rules, it's the trademark holder, or their agent; historically, their agent has denied permission for such things. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message