From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 30 13:44:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA27518 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 13:44:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (uucp@osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA27284 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 13:42:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA03444 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG); Fri, 30 Jan 1998 22:42:11 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.7/8.6.12) id UAA02093; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 20:36:26 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199801301936.UAA02093@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: FreeBSD updated Installation / Adminsitration Kit In-Reply-To: <199801300759.SAA03514@word.smith.net.au> from Mike Smith at "Jan 30, 98 06:29:54 pm" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 20:36:26 +0100 (MET) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, kpielorz@tdx.co.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" As Mike Smith wrote... > > 2. We still need to converge on a set of desired enhancements for > > the old sysinstall. I don't mean to discourage discussion about the > > new one, but I'd like to finish out the old topic before it's hijacked > > by the new one. ;) > > Indeed. There are a couple of things about the install disk that > immediately come to mind: > > FAILSAFE should be ripped out of GENERIC, at least until we know why it > causes the NCR driver to spit when talking to some tape drives. > Nothing else uses it anyway. 8( At the very least it should be renamed to something describing what it does. E.g. SCSINOTCQ. FAILSAFE IMHO could mean anything, up to a parachute for a bungee jumper Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' --------------- Support your local daemons: run [Free,Net,Open]BSD Unix --