floppy.. Was: Drawing graphics on terminal

[Eric Jacobs]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:38:06 -0500
Juli Mallett <jmallett at freebsd.org> 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 work from the
> 	information we gather about driverless devices to figure out
> 	what drivers may be appropriate, but letting the user select
> 	would be a must, as would possibly trying everything, with a
> 	suitable warning that drivers may be quite large.
> 
> 2) CD-ROM install.
> 	The CD-ROM should be used for booting, or a floppy similar to
> 	that in case 3. should be used.
> 
> 3) Install from other physical medium.
> 	No network drivers.  Just storage (and requisite) driers of
> 	every common colour at the very least.  Driver floppies could
> 	be available for the more bloated.  No reason a user cannot run
> 	sysinstall after the system is installed to set up the network
> 	parameters they want, if they don't need them for the bootstrap
> 	install.  This should probably not have netinet, etc., 

I like these ideas. The one other thing I could imagine being useful
would be a consoleless install via Ethernet. That could be managed
though by having the network KLD's on the CD-ROM, since there wouldn't
be a shortage of space.