From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 8 14:38:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA29592 for current-outgoing; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 14:38:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA29578 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 14:38:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA25196; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 17:38:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA14922; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 17:40:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 17:40:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Charles Henrich cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 961006-SNAP comments In-Reply-To: <199610081710.NAA00777@crh.cl.msu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Charles Henrich wrote: > The forced visual config on install is a horrible thing. Forced config is a > bad idea, especially when its not neccesary for most and confuses lots of > people. Secondly forcing me into the visual mode instead of command line was > just tedium. I think what is dangerous is the suggestion to the user that they remove all devices which they don't have. I think it should be reworded to say "know you don't have", to prevent removal of something important ("syscons video driver? What's that? I have a DayTek moniter, not a Syscons." (Incidentally, removing the syscons driver causes a sig12, page fault while in kernel mode when one continues booting)). -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk