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Date:      Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:04:45 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Intel gigabit driver
Message-ID:  <XFMail.011129080445.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011129100209.A42016@ussenterprise.ufp.org>

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On 29-Nov-01 Leo Bicknell wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 09:34:37PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
>> CDROM installs are most likely going to use cdldr soon so we will have the
>> entire module suite available from loader.  For boot floppies we should
>> probably use the one that is smaller on disk.. but we also have the the
>> embryonic "driver disk" in the pipeline for real floppy installs.
> 
> Not to get too far afield, but I might suggest the install people
> consider some middle ground.
> 
> Right now I can mess with floppies for an install, or download a
> 600+ Meg ISO image to burn CD's.  It would be extremly useful if
> I could download a 5-10 Meg ISO image for a CD that was essentially
> the floppy install (eg, download everything over the net), without
> having to wait for a 600 M download to finish over a slow link.

Yes, it's called the mini-iso and is basically the first CD w/o any ports or
packages.  The last one I built for current that didn't include Xfree86 was
about 200 Meg.  That also didn't include the ports collection or any of the
docs.

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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