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To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:33:42 PDT."
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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 12:50:54 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> If you have a splash screen, really, you _have_ to put the image in
> the kernel executable... After all, how are you supposed to read it
> off disk if you haven't done autoconfiguration yet (which displays
> those icky messages! :-)?

The option to compile it into your kernel would not be a complete
waste at all.  Again, consider those who are shipping products based
on FreeBSD but do not want to announce its presence as such.  I can
now think of several who would use this feature, were it implemented.

					Jordan