Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 12:07:15 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, davidg@Root.COM, current@FreeBSD.ORG, fenner@parc.xerox.com Subject: Re: userconfig doesn't work on tvi925 Message-ID: <199509121807.MAA06673@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199509121740.KAA14390@precipice.shockwave.com> References: <199509121157.VAA21984@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <199509121740.KAA14390@precipice.shockwave.com>
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> I don't call a newbie booting the kernel on non-conforming hardware an > "emergency". > > I would certainly consider an utter newbie booting a kernel on a machine > that doesn't have the FDC in the right location to be an > "exception"... Maybe not, but a newbie booting a kernel which has it's ethernet controller configured differently than our configuration is certainly an emergency. This arguement can be extended to talk about the non-SCSI CD controllers, or serial ports, or .... Nate
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