From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 1 21:21:16 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA14746 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 21:21:16 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA14740 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 21:21:11 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id GAA18115; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 06:21:08 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id GAA06439; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 06:21:07 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id AAA00684; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 00:35:47 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511012335.AAA00684@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: More nits To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 00:35:47 +0100 (MET) Cc: nate@rocky.sri.MT.net, hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <1239.815258519@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 1, 95 12:41:59 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 610 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Still, I think that the present situation remains sub-optimal in the > extreme. The bootup *should not fail just because there's no CD in > the friggin' drive!* It fails because this was Rod's idea. He claims that everybody is in the same situation as AAC, and that a missing CD on bootup is a fatal condition. I continue to remove this gratuitous hack^H^H^H^Hfeature out of all /etc/rc's that are in my reach. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)