> Doug Barton wrote:
> >
> > "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
> >
> > > Hmmm. Odd, I've always noted the opposite. If you do the novice instal
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> > > (which everyone should if they're trying to test the "typical case"),
> >
> > I've always found the term "novice" to be a little of
Wouldn't it be possible to use a 2.88MB boot image? Most of the documentation
I've read states that this should be supportable on machines that understand
2.88MB floppies Or, have we outgrown that already?
-Brian
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Actually, about half a dozen. Lots More if you include LS-120 drives in the
list... But, the main point I'm driving at is to still be able to build
bootable CDs without too much playing...
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I've just finished building my n'th release of -STABLE, and that dang boot
floppy is still too big. I know I came in on the trailing edge of the
discussion to change the whole boot thing, but after poking through a few
ideas, and testing them out, I came up with a few that might make for
a reasonab
I was just going through the list of projects at the FreeBSD website. I
didn't see one for the installer. I was curious if anyone was working on
an upgrade/replacement for sysinstall... I know of Jordan's paper on the
subject, et al, but curious if anyone was doing anything more than maintaining
o
I'm having a problem with fetch and libfetch in 5.0, and (given that I
currently have a bad cold), I'm hoping to get a cheap answer before I have
to start crawling through code.
In the 4.x days, I was able to set up an apache web proxy, and then export
FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES and HTTP_PROXY=:80, and
The following patches apply to 5.0-CURRENT-DP2. They add support for the
Trek SmartDrive 8MB. I'm assuming that the other drives have differing product
numbers, but I don't have any other reference hardware to play with. However,
this may act as a good starting point for others who have the larger
I just installed RC#0. It appears to be as good as some of the DP versions. I
haven't done much with it yet, but a couple of minor sysinstall issues that
are ugly.
1.) It appears, during install that devfs gets mounted on /dev twice. It
doesn't appear to impact anything, its just an oddity.
2.) D
