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.

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 wo

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

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

Re: floppy.. Was: Drawing graphics on terminal

2003-06-16 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
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 the installer > over the network, since PC's generally have more memory these days... Many Linux dists seem to do something like this n

Re: floppy.. Was: Drawing graphics on terminal

2003-06-16 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 12:37:08PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > 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 i