Subject: Re: Tiny BSD with DHCP
To: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/04/1999 15:04:25
In message <Pine.GSO.4.05.9909011053500.22302-100000@cynic.anim.dreamworks.com>
David Brownlee writes
>	You should probably look at src/distrib/i386/floppies - the
>	ramdisk directory takes the INSTALL kernel config and embeds
>	a ramdisk containing crunched binaries for all the install tools.
>
>	The fdset directory tken makes a floppy set from the resultant
>	kernel+ramdisk.
>
>	It should be a reasonably simple matter to remove sysinst and
>	any other cruft you do not need, and add in telnet and friends
>	(I've done it on occasion :)

It would be **so** nice if the crunch tools were reworked to accept
multiple input-description files. sysinst and the tools itneeds could go
in one file (which could be largely MI,or be made MI, which would be a boon
for porting and maintaining install tools).

Ideally one could just write a config file for dhcpd and whatever it
needs, and do `make' with one cmd-line override to point at the dhcpd
config, rather than the sysinst-and-friends config, and otherwise just
use the existing diskimage tools....