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 install stick around for a while, but I think FreeBSD > > needs to embrace the CD reality. > > We have over a thousand machines in teh field with no CD but they do > have floppies.. > we use the floppy when we upgrade.. It's still are requirement as far as > I'm concerened :-)
Oh, absolutely, which is why I said it needs to stick around for a while. All I'm saying is it's clear a fancier installer needs more space than a floppy can provide, and since PC standards are going to a floppy-less PC it seems like making a bootable CD image is the way of the future. I don't think anyone argues that, my only suggestion is FreeBSD get there sooner rather than later, and do that by making a "minimal" install CD, rather than the complete CD's available today. Perhaps this can be done with a new GUI based installer as well, letting the new "CD-install" run in parallel with the "floppy install" for the 2-4 major versions necessary for it to be fully baked. 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... -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org
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