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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