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

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Friday 09 January 2004 15:48, Avleen Vig wrote:
> > Yep,
> > I suspect mtools is the easiest way to do this..
>
> Something that was suggested in #FreeBSDHelp on EFnet just now:
> sysinstall already has the ability to dynamically load modules.
> If this is the case, I don't see where the "problem" is.
> Make the kernel on the floppy disk have few/no drivers built in, and
> have then all loaded from a third disk.
> Have the third disk generated dynamically from say, a website?

Yeah, that was similar to what I was thinking.

You could just get it to make a zip for you to put on a floppy after you 
select your hardware from a list.

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