Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:27:03 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: green@unixhelp.org (Brian Feldman) Cc: dcs@newsguy.com, abial@nask.pl, mike@smith.net.au, jhay@mikom.csir.co.za, dfr@nlsystems.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, jwd@unx.sas.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot.flp doesn't Message-ID: <199901112127.WAA01310@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901111554320.23573-100000@janus.syracuse.net> from Brian Feldman at "Jan 11, 99 03:56:44 pm"
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As Brian Feldman wrote... > On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > > Gee... that's a lot of cc's... > > > > Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > > > > > > > What about removing NFS on the boot.flp also? > > > > > > > > The server code is already removed; you could put the nfs_mod.ko file > > > > on a second floppy though. > > > > > > Wait a moment. If we really want to go this way, why don't put the whole > > > bunch of modules on a second floppy, and cut down the kernel size by half? > > > > Now, if my memory doesn't fail me, there are some people who do NFS > > installs on a sizable number of machines (emphasis on size) who have > > previously manifested the intention to kill anyone who makes them > > boot two disks instead of one. > > > > If we had to choose, I'd say try to keep it one disk as far as > > network installations are concerned. > > Why don't we just make more floppies? bootcd.flp, bootnet.flp, bootnfs.flp, > bootks.flp.... The floppy generation process could be pretty easily changed. > More floppies is pretty modular, anyway, without the need for using actual > KLDs :) This has been explored before. It is called Linux. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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