On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:36:54PM -0800, Ben Barrett wrote: > oh, and don't forget tom's, since you mention single-disk installs > (tho I prefer bulk crufty-niftiness): > http://www.toms.net/rb/home.html > Interesting, formatting 1.44MB disks at 1.722MB; and an impressive list of programs (emacs even!?). Why doesn't it use a more modern kernel (and/or libc) though? Anyone here made a customized version?
Anyway, my point is that installing (and also recovery) FROM a single floppy disk is possible when the base system is just a tarball or two (which also nearly eliminates the possibility that something will be left out or conflict) since there's no need for a package manager (and it's cruft) when dealing with a package or two ... one can always add cruft later ;) Or, one could just tar up a whole customized system, with whatever additions and deletions suit one's fancy and call it site30.tgz (assuming kernel version 3.0) and the install script on the OpenBSD install disk will install (simply untar) that instead. You can also add an executable called "install.site" in / of the site30 tarball which will be run after the standard install script - system clonig the easy way. "Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity." - Dennis Ritchie -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
