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From: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu>
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To: gpalmer
Subject: Re: Netscape install of FreeBSD 
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  > specifically, Jordan and I talked a bit about using a WWW browser and
  > CGI scripts to create the configuration manager for post-install stuff
  > like adding/deleting users, changing /etc/sysconfig, etc.

I meant the install install, that is, click a button from Netscape
running in Windows or Linux and it goes off and partitions your drive,
downloads FreeBSD, installs it, sets up the boot manager, asks you some questions and writes the appropriate files onto the newly created BSD ufs,
then reboots.

This is an example of network software distribution which everyone seems
to want to do with the web.