On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:04:34PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > *How* does it support all of those sources? > CD/DVD drives need drivers (ATA optimisticly, but quite possibly SCSI), > FTP/NFS need network card support, NFS needs nfsclient.ko > ie this is the exact problem it has now :) > You could save a little space with your idea because you wouldn't need > sysinstall which is admittedly quite large, but it wouldn't address the > fundamental issue. > If you want floppy installs you need a way of putting arbitary drivers 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. -- Avleen Vig Systems Administrator Personal: www.silverwraith.com EFnet: irc.mindspring.com (Earthlink user access only) _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
