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On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 07:16:12PM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> It is with a little intrepidation that I ask this question, because I=20
> sense that what I am about to ask might push some buttons, or perhaps=20
> bring back some unpleasant memories of those who have asked what I am=20
> going to ask in a less tactful manner.
>=20
> I find that the beastie that appears at boot time with FreeBSD 5.3=20
> mildly bothers me.  It is possible for me to edit boot/beastie.4th, but=
=20
> this gets put back each time I do make installworld.
>=20
> Would it be possible to add a variable "show_beastie" to be put in=20
> /boot/loader.conf, which would default to "YES", but users could add in=
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> show_beastie=3D"NO" if they didn't want it, but only want the menu.

That option is already there, you didn't look hard enough.

Kris

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