Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 15:40:20 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@dal.net> To: "Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav" <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libftpio ftpio.c Message-ID: <35562CD4.6008D4F8@dal.net> References: <20694.894630919@time.cdrom.com> <xzplnscudpl.fsf@skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > > "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> writes: > > No, not really, not anymore anyway. I'd be just as happy to see us go > > to a larger fragment size if it doesn't screw up the floppy folk too > > much (don't forget - they need to stick the foo.inf file on the very > > first floppy, so it can't be exactly 1.44MB in size or even relatively > > close given what's taken for FS overhead). As much as I'd like to > > kill the floppy installation entirely (it penalizes _all_ the other > > installation types by enforcing this kind of multi-piece braindamage), > > I don't think we can get away with that yet. > > Anybody willing to install FreeBSD from floppies ought to be given a > medal for patience. Perhaps we could split only the bin distribution? I know people with cable modems that depend on dhcp to get connected to the net who put just the bin dist on floppies along with the dhcp client and scripts then connect up to the net to get the rest. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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