Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 20:47:10 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@dimaga.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra), joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, beckmann@mail.nacamar.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2 sources ? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970129204709.00afdec0@dimaga.com>
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At 11:12 AM 1/29/97 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: >2) >Another suggestion: a single DOS executable that, when run, will ask >for a blank disk, format it, and copy the boot disk out of its internal >data area, ask for another, and format it, and write out the second disk. > >This would let you click a "make BSD install disks" button in any >browser that allowed ".exe" file types (ie: MS Internet Explorer 3.x) >and end up with disks, without dicking around with rawrite or the >other tons of excerment you have to play with now. I don't believe it is possible to do access the raw disks from Win95 or WinNT; at least, it is not possible from a DOS executable. It *might* be possible from a WinNT executable (which will also run under Win95). However, my resident Win95/NT expert didn't know how. >3) >How about definining a ".sh" file type in the default mailcap for >the FreeBSD install for NetScape or whatever, and setting up each >port as a button which generates a .sh for the port using a CGI >script... "click here to install this, click here to install that" >buttons for all ports and packages. Use a CGI script to rotor, and/or >have the user select, a mirror site to get packages from. I still don't like the concept of having the user *automatically* run anything downloaded. I don't think setting ut the mailcap to do so is a good idea, to put it mildly. (It almost give me enough paranoia to make me want to switch to another OS; it is a large part of the reason I don't run IE, _ever_.) Eivind Eklund / perhaps@yes.no / http://maybe.yes.no/perhaps/
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