Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:08:50 -0400 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: TODO items for 5.3R Message-ID: <20040817170850.7f27608a@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1092767220.864.43.camel@localhost.kitchenlab.org> References: <20040818.002504.07648782.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> <20040817113649.0c60a790@localhost> <1092761125.864.22.camel@localhost.kitchenlab.org> <20040817130822.142f72e5@localhost> <1092767220.864.43.camel@localhost.kitchenlab.org>
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On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:27:00 -0700 "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 10:08, Tom Rhodes wrote: > > > Perhaps I only seen one of the later commercials > > for say, electronic talking battle ship or whatever. > > Someone else (who shall remain nameless, he knows who he is) suggested > that we might have remembered two different commercials. > > ANYWAYS... Haha, quickly change the topic here now huh. :) > > > > > 3. Just enough to get a user to the sysinstall screen. The Handbook > > > can take over from there. One nagging thing at the back of my head was > > > that I'm not sure how first-time users would get to the Handbook. > > > Obviously it's easy if they have net access. > > > > This is something that has been on my mind for ages and I really > > have no clue how to work around it. :( > > I was toying around about a year ago with a way to make a doc CD-ROM > that had renderings of the entire doc tree. Last time I hauled it out a > few months ago, it mostly worked. It's in doc/release. Not sure if > this is interesting or useful. The only problem with this is that OpenBoot needs to be explicitly informed about a bootable disc. Of course, that doesn't stop companies like BSDMall for example, from shipping a little card for this architecture. -- Tom Rhodes
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