From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 31 09:00:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA02700 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 09:00:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA02694 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 09:00:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@korin.warman.org.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA02505; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 18:02:03 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 18:02:03 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot floppy banner In-Reply-To: <4667.886265278@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" 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 ---------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@warman.org.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. ---------------------+---------------------------------------------------------