From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 30 5:36: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rapier.smartspace.co.za (rapier.smartspace.co.za [66.8.25.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0211C37B71B for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 05:35:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@rapier.smartspace.co.za) Received: (qmail 58996 invoked by uid 1001); 30 Mar 2001 13:35:01 -0000 Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 15:35:01 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Michael Lucas Cc: "litos2001@libero.it" , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Startup scripts a la NetBSD Message-ID: <20010330153501.B57394@rapier.smartspace.co.za> References: <20010330082114.A75059@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010330082114.A75059@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 08:21:14AM -0500 Organization: Building Intelligence X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri 2001-03-30 (08:21), Michael Lucas wrote: > It's been discussed before. > > Every time it's been discussed, someone volunteers to do the work. > The volunteers vanish into the aether, and are not heard from again. > > I can only assume that they're all secretly coordinating their work to > ensure that it is bug-free and commit-ready, so that when they > reappear we are all immediately overwhelmed by their technical > excellence. I haven't ever volunteered specifically, but some people know that I've worked on it. Unfortunately it's tough going lately, since I no longer have a "development" machine (and seem to have issues getting liquidated companies to pay me *grin*). I've got it to work previously, it's pretty arbitrary to do. It shouldn't take more than a few hours to get the basics going. The specifics get a bit more difficult, and it's quite a bit of manual work to get it to actually boot somewhat cleanly. I'm starting a new contract in two weeks, where I may have the resources to work on this (after some other FreeBSD-specific things the company is interested in - Hi Arri, Barry, Leon, &c.). Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message