Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 21:18:36 -0800 From: Avleen Vig <lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <20040109051836.GN53429@silverwraith.com> In-Reply-To: <200401091528.11903.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <200401082334.i08NYMx86020@thistle.bogs.org> <200401091404.34083.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20040109043017.GM53429@silverwraith.com> <200401091528.11903.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 03:28:11PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Friday 09 January 2004 15:00, Avleen Vig wrote: > > > onto floppy disks easily so users can grab what they need and use it > > > instead of having to second guess what sort of hardware they are likely > > > to be using. IMHO of course 8-) > > > > Now you've got me thinking. > > A simple website which lets you choose what drivers you want (anyone > > seen the .muttrc config page? :) > > That should be really easy to do with a little perl CGI. > > I might take a crack at this in the next week or so. > > Yep, > I suspect mtools is the easiest way to do this.. Something that was suggested in #FreeBSDHelp on EFnet just now: sysinstall already has the ability to dynamically load modules. If this is the case, I don't see where the "problem" is. Make the kernel on the floppy disk have few/no drivers built in, and have then all loaded from a third disk. Have the third disk generated dynamically from say, a website?
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