From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 31 13:06:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA06563 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 13:06:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ocean.campus.luth.se (ocean.campus.luth.se [130.240.194.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA06539 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 13:06:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se) Received: (from karpen@localhost) by ocean.campus.luth.se (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA13913; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 22:04:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from karpen) From: Mikael Karpberg Message-Id: <199801312104.WAA13913@ocean.campus.luth.se> Subject: Re: boot floppy banner In-Reply-To: <4667.886265278@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 31, 98 08:47:58 am" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 22:03:59 +0100 (CET) Cc: hackers@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" According to Jordan K. Hubbard: > > 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. :-) Well, they don't need to boot off the first drive on their second controller when they are going to install. They don't have much choice but to continue booting off of the install floppy, anyway. Right? So, we could have the install floppy have a nice "welcome to freebsd install. press return" message at the boot prompt on that one. But have the install install one that actually helps them. That'd be nice, I think. /Mikael