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To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject: Re: Graphical installations and such 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 07 Jan 1995 19:59:20 PST."
             <199501080359.TAA21255@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> 
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 04:47:22 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> What I mean by this is:
> 
> 1) VM86 Bios mode disk driver as the method of installation, and
> as a viable alternative for folks waiting for their drive to be
> supported.  Linux has this.
> 
> 2) Externalizing the probes from all the drivers and doing the
> probes (like NT, OS/2, and Windows 96^H5) once you've got the machine
> up and can say to the user "Hey, I'm about to look for the hardware
> you have installed...if I freeze, this is what you do... you can also
> bypass the probe and tell me what you have".
> 
> 3) Take the probe information and configure a kernel appropriately.
> 
> 4) Ask about the type of ethernet device people have (link2 saga).
> 
> 5) Have a shell availible!!!

This all sounds great..!  So..  Justin!  Pal!  What are you doing for
the next couple of weeks?  Nothing?  Terrific!  There's this install
thing that Poul and I would *love* some help on! :-)

					Jordan