[broken record] Still no topic for next GLLUG meeting...

[Adam]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Alan Garrison wrote:

>Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net> 07/24/00 10:05AM
>> I've kinda been wondering ever since the installfest what a *smooth*
>> installation of linux looks like =P  Most of them did go ok finally but it
>> seemed like some people took half a day to get going.  
>
>I would think a lot of that was explaining various things to 
>the attendees of the installfest.  Plus, doing an install on 
>some 486-class machine with a 4x CDROM takes a while.  :)
>
>Although I have the FreeBSD 4.0 discs at home, I still 
>haven't installed it yet.  Perhaps a demo install of FreeBSD?
>I could (perhaps) bring a O/S'less machine.  I actually 
>recently acquired an old socket-5 (dual cpu) box which 
>I could bring in for demo purposes.

Just wanted to note 4.0 would be fine for demo install purposes but for
keeper installs, 4.1 is almost out the door and will fix a few local and
one remote DoS.  4.1 will also support Intel's Wired for Management 2.0
(PXE) network booting(I can scrounge up a howto someone made if anyone is 
interested(ben?)), openssh 2.1.0 in the base OS, including ssh1 & 2
support, USB device support from the installation floppies and a generic
kernel, the bootstrap updated to banish the 1024 cylindar booting limit,
tcsh replaced csh, more replaced by less,  and color support added to the
ls command by popular demand =P

Also something nifty they are working on is ext2fs support in the
bootloader and boot chain.  I personally expect 5.0 (and maybe
4.something) to offer installation to existing free space on an ext2fs
partition.  The whole thing would be booted by booting a special
bootloader file instead of the linux kernel via LILO and running off the
os files that FreeBSD installed while giving access and emulation to all
the linux files and binaries.