From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 9 06:07:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA23227 for current-outgoing; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 06:07:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA23222 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 06:07:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA05163; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 09:06:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Henrich Message-Id: <199610091306.JAA05163@crh.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: 961006-SNAP comments To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 09:06:58 -0400 (EDT) Cc: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca, freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <21519.844859062@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Oct 9, 96 04:04:22 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > all devices which they don't have. I think it should be reworded to say > > "know you don't have", to prevent removal of something important ("syscons > > I think that's a reasonable point - I'll do this. Why are we forcing people who probably have no clue to go mucking with the device table? I've done hundreds of FreeBSD installs and the generic kernel has always booted just peachy with me. It seems that dumping people into a fairly unfriendly (granted much better than command line) device editor as the first thing they do is definatly not a good idea! -Crh Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich