Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 18:02:03 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot floppy banner Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980131175831.1168B-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <4667.886265278@time.cdrom.com>
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On Sat, 31 Jan 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > OTOH, this version is much better than previous one... so at least we're
> > heading in good direction :-))
>
> I believe the goal behind the current message was to eliminate all
> those novice users saying "how do I boot off the 1st drive on my 2nd
> controller?" - the information presented there may be cryptic, but
> it's also pretty useful if you're totally lost as to what your device
> name should be or how you can specify the partition and bios logical
> drive# independently. "Hello, and welcome to FreeBSD!" is certainly
> more friendly, but does very little to actually aid the user. :-)
Right :-)
And what about the following: we could split this message into two parts -
first would be displayed by default, and would contain the nice greeting
message with two or three most common examples of usage. The second part
would be available under 'help' command, and would display the usual
stuff...
Andrzej Bialecki
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