This has been committed already, but I'll answer your questions. If
you are unhappy with anything, go ahead and change it. At the end I
thought it more usefull to have snapshots that complete the building
process, than ones that don't. People can test and give feedback on
something that exists.
>
On 08-Aug-2002 John Hay wrote:
> Here is a try at a 3 floppy system. Most people should be able to
> install with the first 2 floppies (kern.flp and mfsroot.flp). Just
> those that need a driver on the third floppy (drivers.flp) will
> need it.
>
> If this idea is acceptable, we should probably
Hi,
>I think MSDOS installs are pretty rare and NFS ones even rarer (FTP is
>easier to setup)
>
>Survey time! :)
I use NFS installs a lot, both with floppies and with pxeboot'd sysinstall.
I've never had much luck with FTP installs from a remote server.
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John Hay wrote:
> > > Why?? I disagree. CD9600 can go to the 3rd floppy -- if I am installing
> > > from floppy's I am 99.9% chance doing a network install.
[ ... ]
> Calm down and relax. Which part of my patch removed support for
> anything that might be needed during the install?
>
> ... We
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 07:20:53AM +0200 I heard the voice of
John Hay, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> I'm wondering if that was because something in our stack was bust or
> because of some firewall or other network thing?
I'm not sure.
This was 4.6.1-RC2, across a local 100mbps LAN. The FTP server
On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 14:50, John Hay wrote:
> So should I commit the code and let us tune what go on which floppy
> later or should I just sit back and enjoy the ride? I'm not worried
> too much because the snaps on ftp.za.freebsd.org is working again.
> :-) ... Yes they are non-standard (they us
Hi Terry,
> > Why?? I disagree. CD9600 can go to the 3rd floppy -- if I am installing
> > from floppy's I am 99.9% chance doing a network install.
>
> I have an idea...
>
> If you only support installing via whatever option wins a vote
> as The One True Way, then there'll be a 100% chance tha
> > > I think MSDOS installs are pretty rare and NFS ones even rarer (FTP is
> > > easier to setup)
> >
> > I've had one recent example here where FTP wouldn't work, but NFS flew.
>
> Weird but I can appreciate it's possible.
I'm wondering if that was because something in our stack was bust or
On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 14:15, Terry Lambert wrote:
> David O'Brien wrote:
> > Why?? I disagree. CD9600 can go to the 3rd floppy -- if I am installing
> > from floppy's I am 99.9% chance doing a network install.
>
> I have an idea...
>
> If you only support installing via whatever option wins a
On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 14:25, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> > I think MSDOS installs are pretty rare and NFS ones even rarer (FTP is
> > easier to setup)
>
> I've had one recent example here where FTP wouldn't work, but NFS flew.
Weird but I can appreciate it's possible.
I wasn't suggesting removin
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 02:12:33PM +0930 I heard the voice of
Daniel O'Connor, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> I think MSDOS installs are pretty rare and NFS ones even rarer (FTP is
> easier to setup)
I've had one recent example here where FTP wouldn't work, but NFS flew.
--
Matthew Fuller (M
David O'Brien wrote:
> Why?? I disagree. CD9600 can go to the 3rd floppy -- if I am installing
> from floppy's I am 99.9% chance doing a network install.
I have an idea...
If you only support installing via whatever option wins a vote
as The One True Way, then there'll be a 100% chance that th
On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 13:59, David O'Brien wrote:
> Why?? I disagree. CD9600 can go to the 3rd floppy -- if I am installing
> from floppy's I am 99.9% chance doing a network install. NFSCLIENT
> definitely should be on the 1st or 2nd, not 3rd floppy -- again because I
> am most likely doing a n
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 08:27:15PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > +CD9660 cd9660 3 options "ISO 9660 Filesystem"
> > +MSDOSFSmsdosfs 3 options "MSDOS filsystem"
> > +NFSCLIENT nfsclient 3 options "Network Filesystem Client"
> > SYSVSHMsysvsh
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 06:32:40PM +0200, John Hay scribbled:
| Here is a try at a 3 floppy system. Most people should be able to
| install with the first 2 floppies (kern.flp and mfsroot.flp). Just
| those that need a driver on the third floppy (drivers.flp) will
| need it.
|
| If this idea is a
Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > But then everyone needs to boot with 3 floppies. With my way, we can
> > hopefully select the optimum so that most people will only need 2
> > floppies, ie the most popular drivers should go on mfsroot.flp.
>
> Both approaches have its own advantages and disadvantages. IM
Ruslan,
Here is my latest version. It has all the changes you requested and
a fix for the case where there isn't a third floppy.
John
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