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Date:      Sat, 17 Nov 2001 22:54:50 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        clefevre@citeweb.net, Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.freebsd.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PATCH: sysinstall to remove userconfig code 
Message-ID:  <200111180554.fAI5so758999@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:23:18 PST." <20011118052318.45BBE38CC@overcee.netplex.com.au> 
References:  <20011118052318.45BBE38CC@overcee.netplex.com.au>  

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In message <20011118052318.45BBE38CC@overcee.netplex.com.au> Peter Wemm writes:
: Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message <200111172343.fAHNhnw28962@gits.dyndns.org> Cyrille Lefevre writes
:     :
: > : Warner Losh wrote:
: > : > In message <200111132009.fADK9sX50643@gits.dyndns.org> Cyrille Lefevre wr
:     ites:
: > : > : I don't know -current. what is the feature which replace kget ?
: > : > : does boot -c (or whatever) still exists ? is it possible to
: > : > : edit <KERNEL>.hints at boot time ?
: > : > 
: > : > set/unset works.
: > : > 
: > : > I've removed ISA devices at boot time by unsetting the 'at' hint.
: > : 
: > : thanks for the trick. but show/set/unset are really less intuitive
: > : than boot -c, specifically to novice users. unfortunately, I'm not
: > : forth aware at all, so, don't ask me about writting such tool using
: > : forth :P
: > 
: > Right.  There is a forth tool available (authored I think by
: > matsushita-san), and now that matsushita-san is a committer, maybe it
: > will be done in time for 5.0. :-)
: 
: As a fallback, I've been threatening to do a simple userconfig-style
: thing in loader itself as a fallback if necessary.. I'd rather not since
: that would just make loader bigger still, but it's always there as
: a quick/dirty fallback option.
: 
: If my memory serves me correctly, we dont enable bootforth on the 5.0 boot
: floppies.  This is probably more a symptom of having an identical config
: for floppies and cd boot.  Now that we have cdboot for i386 all but there,
: we should be able to finally do a complete boot for the CD case and a
: smaller stripped kernel with esoteric drivers on a seperate disk for the
: floppy-only case.

Actually, now that I think about it, the module I saw was in 'C'.  So
someone needs to learn forth to do this. :-)

Warner

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