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Re: On the subject of booting... Re: OpenBSD remote install
- To: "Wim Vandeputte" <bunbun@reptile.rug.ac.be>,"mirabilos {Thorsten Glaser}" <mirabilos@ePOST.de>
- Subject: Re: On the subject of booting... Re: OpenBSD remote install
- From: "mirabilos {Thorsten Glaser}" <Thorsten.Glaser1@ePOST.de>
- Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 18:24:28 +0200
- Cc: "Philipp Buehler" <lists@fips.de>, <misc@openbsd.org>
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108291423040.28314-100000@saitti.net> <0108292234040A.00834@tamiru> <20010829221821.R14485@cepheid.nu> <20010830090611.C25611@gengar.voltagenoir.org> <20010830183707.2993.qmail@sidereal.kz> <20010830211008.A28656@pohl.fips.de> <00b701c13218$1673db60$6a8e07d4@amdqg6f8nh653t> <20010831212356.B26824@reptile.rug.ac.be>
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 02:23:40PM +0200, mirabilos {Thorsten Glaser}
wrote:
> > Btw, the current kernels are too big to fit into the floppies, I
removed
> > some SCSI stuff out of /sys/arch/i386/conf/RAMDISK for success.
> >
> > Another question is, what about NFS install? Documented but not
> > implemented
> > (as of both 2_9_BASE and -current)...
>
> I think you answered your own question:
>
> 0. NFS feature takes extra space that we obviously don't have on the
floppy ;-)
> 1. If you can run an NFS server, you can run an FTP server too.
>
> I thought that were the reasons why it got removed in the first place.
> Also, NFS is not the most efficient way of doing bulk downloads.
Right? :-)
>
> Wim.
ACK