Theo de Raadt escreveu: >> Paul Greidanus escreveu: >>> Hi All >>> >>> I'm just wondering how many people out there are using the floppy.fs >>> installer still? I'm wondering if it would be a worthwhile thought to >>> expand past the 1.44Mb limit for the CD and .rd install options if there >>> are features that can be added to the installer. No, I'm not thinking a >>> gui/menu based installer as the main reason, but there might be benefits >>> to something like that. >>> >>> Paul >>> >>> >> One thing that i miss a lot on floppy.fs is the dhcp client. > > All the i386 floppies contain dhclient, so I don't know what you are > referring to. > I do most of my installs using amd64. I don't see it much as a inconvenience, but every time i have to search for a free ip in my network to install. >> I do the installation using a pen drive, not a floppy, >> so it would be nice if there was another image, suited for a pen drive >> or other things bigger than floppy. > > This is harder than it looks, and is on the long term list of things > to do to the bootblocks, to further solve the handling between CHS and > LBA issues. Right now you cannot simply dd a floppy or larger to a > USB drive, and expect it to work. The i386/amd64 boot code can't handle > it perfectly. I didn't knew about this limitation. > >> I know some archs doesn't have the >> ability to boot from cd, or usb pen drives, and the only option left is >> floppy or pxeboot. But, anyway, it would be nice to have another image >> with more things in it, this image could even work as a rescue image. > > We've got a ton of boot options for each architecture. If we could do more, > we would. > I'm not complaining at all. OpenBSD is great and having to put an ip on hand to install it, never stopped me from installing it. :). I'll take a look at the boot code from openbsd. I'm not a C master, but will see if something can be done. Any relevant changes (if something work at all), i'll post to the list. Thanks for the reply.
My regards, -- Giancarlo Razzolini Linux User 172199 Red Hat Certified Engineer no:804006389722501 Moleque Sem Conteudo Numero #002 Slackware Current OpenBSD Stable Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Snike Tecnologia em Informatica 4386 2A6F FFD4 4D5F 5842 6EA0 7ABE BBAB 9C0E 6B85 [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
