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From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: 961006-SNAP comments
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 09:30:44 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <21098.844855812@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Oct 9, 96 03:10:12 am"
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> Another thing that occurred to me about an hour after I released the
> boot floppy was that detecting "Q" or "ESC" as special values for the
> "any" key in intro and assume an immediate quit would probably be a
> good idea.  Would that make you any happier?
>
> For the rest of the users who just aren't RTFM'ing and setting their
> hardware up properly (sending a message to us which then gets 5
> replies all saying "Boot -c!"), I think this feature is just plain
> mandatory.  It's not like I set your on-disk kernel up like this
> either, it only happens once.  You must have a very low capacity for
> tedium. :-)

Im concerned about the average user who has no idea what that device table is,
or what to do with it.  They could easily break things, and I would wager that
in the general case, the default settings are quite appropriate.  How many
problems will be generated by people disabling the wrong things, or stumbling
around inside the editor just mucking things up because they dont know what
they are doing?

The tedium piece comes from the fact that I do *alot* of FreeBSD installs, if
the forced config must stay, a Q would be great.  (I still however think
forcing a config will cause more problems than not).

If we force a config it has to be brain damaged, i.e:

    Do you have an Adaptec 2940 SCSI Controller (Yes/No)
    Do you have an NE2000 Compatable Ethernet Card (Yes/No)
            Yes: What IRQ is this card located at?
                 What IOMEM Address does this card use?

etc..

-Crh

       Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@msu.edu

                         http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich