Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 13:43:34 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Add smbclient to root crunch for installs? Message-ID: <13836.923089414@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Apr 1999 12:51:06 PST." <199904022051.MAA19553@medusa.kfu.com>
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It's certainly a possibility... If somebody's got some space to test make release, they can try hacking the mfsroot crunch config file and building smbclient into it. There would be some dependency issues, of course, since samba isn't part of the base system. - Jordan > Since 3.1-RELEASE has gone to 2 floppies, it somehow hit my mind > today that it ought to be possible to hack the installation > program to use smbclient to fetch installation tarballs from > a shared CDROM on a nearby Microsoft machine (my love for > Microsoft is low, but for many users there often is one > nearby :-/ ). > > I have done no research yet on how this might be achieved. > I just wanted to mention it here first to see if it was a > fruitful line of inquiry or not. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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