On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 02:14:22AM -0700, Kien Pham wrote: > Anyone seriously creating Hurd installation disks? I was > thinking of using Linux because the PPP install
Being able to install GNU via PPP from the install floppies would be very nice (this is a very nice and unique feature of FreeBSD's installation). > would be quite handy. We could also use apt-get, MGUI, and > svgalib to make a very nice GUIed installation. I could > probably fit it on one or two disks. I was also thinking of > different language disks for each language. Before you invest a lot of time on this you should check out the great work by Ben Pfaff on Debian graphical install disks, utilizing his BOGL library. You can find BOGL, and a graphical rescue disk demo at ftp://pfaffben.user.msu.edu/misc/ -amcl
