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

[Nik Clayton]

On 8 Jan 2004, at 14:39, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> Then, to replace the current floppy process, a new floppy installer
> is created.  It may or may not be based on FreeBSD, but what it
> needs to be able to do is boot, load a network driver, configure
> the network, and ftp the above mentioned iso into ram, and then
> jump into the kernel from the iso as if it had been loaded from a
> CD.

Or mount the ISO image from a FAT, NTFS, UFS, or EXT2FS filesystem on a 
disk that's already in the machine...

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