Subject: Re: System configuration utility
To: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: tech-install
Date: 09/29/1998 14:13:38
How about hooks in the first 'sysinst plus min tools only' floppy
to optionally load programs from a second 'extra tools inc shell'
floppy.
David/absolute
-=- Sue me, screw me, walk right through me -=-
On 29 Sep 1998, Michael Graff wrote:
> "Robert V. Baron" <rvb@cs.cmu.edu> writes:
>
> [ about multiple disk installs ]
>
> > On the one hand this is good. But on the otherhand FreeBSD does a
> > pretty sophisticated install using one floppy. Why do WE need more
> > than one.
>
> IMHO, FreeBSD sacrificed good things like a shell with real commands
> to make things fit on one floppy. I would rather have two floppies
> needed to install a machine and have more frills that _I_ might need
> than a fully functional play toy hope-nothing-strange-happens install.
>
> --Michael
>