In nuntio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michel TALON divulgat: >By the way, what's the reason that it is impossible to have just one >floppy which boots FreeBSD kernel, allows to see an unbootable cdrom >and continue installation from here?
I agree. The boot floppy tries to do w a y too much. I think we should think of the boot floppy as way to implement an old-style console emulator: it "boots" and you tell it where to read the *real* boot image from. It should support all of the usual sources: CDs/DVDs, NFS mounts, FTP, and so on. The real boot image would know how to format drives, install distributions & packages, and so on. This "boot console" floppy would only need to change to support new hardware, and there could even be boot-source-specific versions of it. Once you had one that worked on a specific type of PC, you could keep using it indefinitely. Greg Shenaut _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
