Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 01:58:11 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Avleen Vig <lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com> Cc: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <20040108075811.GJ48603@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <20040108075059.GK53429@silverwraith.com> References: <20040107235737.I32227@pooker.samsco.home> <20040108075059.GK53429@silverwraith.com>
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On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:50:59PM -0800 I heard the voice of Avleen Vig, and lo! it spake thus: > > While it is indeed true that most machines since 1997 will support this > CD format, please take in to account: And, further, some of us don't have (and don't want) CD burners, and even if we had 'em, don't want to burn (no pun intended ;) a CD blank just to install an OS, when we can just (re-)use 2 floppies and do it across the LAN from a local FTP mirror, which is as fast as a CD drive anyway. It seems to me that we could split more out into modules, and/or add more disks of modules (maybe categorize a "storage device" modules disk, a "network drivers" modules disk, etc, keeping just the more common devices in the main kernel). Last I saw, the current system only created a single modules disk, which was a godsend to a kernel overflowing one disk, but as we add more and more stuff becomes another, albeit larger, noose. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"
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