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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1845 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 15:00:50 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncrhub2!ncrgw2!psinntp!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: WFJ's talk last night... Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1993 20:27:49 GMT Message-ID: <C2tFIH.498@sugar.neosoft.com> References: <CGD.93Feb19140552@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <C2qyyp.Hn1@sugar.neosoft.com> <fZDtP0x@quack.sac.ca.us> Lines: 28 I worried that 386BSD 0.2 might... > >(3) be incompatible at the kernel level with BSDI. David Fox replied: > Who cares about (3)? (grin) I do. There are people who are doing good stuff with the BSDI platform, like the Viva File System, and I'd like to be able to play with it. In article <fZDtP0x@quack.sac.ca.us> dfox@quack.sac.ca.us (David Fox) writes: > I agree about the one-pass install kit idea. If it simply consisted of > new binaries in cpio (or other) format, containing naturally all executables > affected (fixed) via the patchkit, this would be useful in situations like > mine where there isn't enough disk space to hold all the source code to > apply all the patches. That would be as good as a complete new distribution. Another good thing would be to take Greg Hackney's disk type tools and replace the install/fixit floppy setup. I wonder if it's technically possible to fake a boot into an MFS-mounted root so you could do the whole install in one pass? -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tänään? 'U` Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä.