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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
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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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