Re: floppy.. Was: Drawing graphics on terminal

2003-06-16 Thread Juli Mallett
* Matthew D. Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Date: 2003-06-16 ] [ w.r.t. Re: floppy.. Was: Drawing graphics on terminal ] On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 03:43:59PM -0400 I heard the voice of Leo Bicknell, and lo! it spake thus: Another idea is to make a floppy just smart enough to load

Re: floppy.. Was: Drawing graphics on terminal

2003-06-16 Thread Don Lewis
On 16 Jun, Juli Mallett wrote: Not to turn this into too much of a bikeshed, but here's an idea I jotted down a while ago: %%% There has been a lot of talk about deprecation of floppies in upcoming releases, and I've been thinking a lot about whether or not we need to do this, and I've

Re: floppy.. Was: Drawing graphics on terminal

2003-06-16 Thread Eric Jacobs
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:38:06 -0500 Juli Mallett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Network install. The floppy could include only network (and requisite) drivers, such that mass storage drivers could be pulled over the net at an early stage in the install. Ideally we would work

Re: floppy.. Was: Drawing graphics on terminal

2003-06-16 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Leo Bicknell wrote: Some of this could be done in the current installer, if there wasn't an effort to make it still fit on a floppy. Mind you, I'd like to see the floppy based install stick around for a while, but I think FreeBSD needs to embrace the CD reality. We