Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

[Avleen Vig]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:04:34PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> *How* does it support all of those sources?
> CD/DVD drives need drivers (ATA optimisticly, but quite possibly SCSI), 
> FTP/NFS need network card support, NFS needs nfsclient.ko
> ie this is the exact problem it has now :)
> You could save a little space with your idea because you wouldn't need 
> sysinstall which is admittedly quite large, but it wouldn't address the 
> fundamental issue.
> If you want floppy installs you need a way of putting arbitary drivers onto 
> floppy disks easily so users can grab what they need and use it instead of 
> having to second guess what sort of hardware they are likely to be using.
> IMHO of course 8-)

Now you've got me thinking.
A simple website which lets you choose what drivers you want (anyone
seen the .muttrc config page? :)
That should be really easy to do with a little perl CGI.
I might take a crack at this in the next week or so.

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