From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 5 09:09:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA07990 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 09:09:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles246.castles.com [208.214.165.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA07970 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 09:09:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA03342; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 09:07:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808051607.JAA03342@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Michael C. Vergallen" cc: Vince Vielhaber , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install *actually* friendly In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Aug 1998 14:31:23 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 09:07:13 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Vince Vielhaber wrote: > > > You're missing my point. The average user who's trying FreeBSD for the > > first time doesn't know it's wrong. Furthermore, the computer just booted > > to the installation program from CD and is now telling the user that there > > is no CD. It's not just a documentation issue. > > I see but this is IMHO only fixable by modularising the whole kernel and > going into the same dangers Linux has gone into.namely the security riscs > a modularised kernel brings with it. No. All that is required is for someone to sit down and make the changes to our ATA support to deal with masterless slaves. So far, all people seem to want to do is argue about it. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message