On 7/5/05, Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
> In message <20050705190706.GA28110@colwyn.zhadum.de>, Matthias Scheler wr=
ites:
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> >
> >No problem. But you'll have to pick another card whose drive is commente=
d
> >out in "INSTALL_TINY". I tried to to remove only el(0) but it wasn't eno=
ugh.
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> Looking longer term, I wonder how hard it would be to build an INSTALL
> disk generator.  That is, the user fills out a web page, and in return
> receives some dynamically generated floppy images.
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> There are obvious issues with denial of service, load, etc.  But we're
> really tight for space now, and the usual answer, every time this comes
> up, is "build your own".  Could we do that for people?
>=20
>                 --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

This is a cool idea. I think Plan9 does this, are there any other
examples? This kind of thing totally eliminates the need for these
discussions...

Andy