[1670] in NetBSD-Development
Re: NetBSD-Athena 8 stabilizing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams)
Wed Apr 29 17:55:42 1998
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
From: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Apr 1998 17:47:05 EDT."
<199804292147.RAA19917@small-gods.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 17:55:07 EDT
[Gotta find something better than mh-e. Gotta]
> > Do we want the install floppy to be part of the release?
>
> Traditionally, install floppies have not been part of the release,
> because they tend to be icky to build. However, I don't want it to be
> so icky to build that you have to become root and fiddle with your
> mount table before you can do the build. That's all.
It's not *quite* that icky. The union mount is handled by the
build process; the only icky thing from the perspective of the person
building the floppy is that you have to be root for the vnconfig
operations to work.
- Nathan
