Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 08:02:21 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina) Cc: 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: <199509122232.IAA23106@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199509121740.KAA14390@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at Sep 12, 95 10:40:30 am
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Paul Traina stands accused of saying: > > 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"... I don't follow you : You say that userconfig should only be used in an emergency. I point out that it's _required_ if one is to be able to install on hardware that isn't configured to exactly match the distribution kernel. I think you're still flogging your floppy/console only boot concept, which has already been dismissed as impractical. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[
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