Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 09:06:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 961006-SNAP comments Message-ID: <199610091406.JAA16882@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199610091306.JAA05163@crh.cl.msu.edu> from "Charles Henrich" at Oct 9, 96 09:06:58 am
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> > > 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!
Maybe "boot -c" should invoke the visual configuration rather than the
command line configuration utility... but it should not be entered by
default.
Just a thought as I haven't seen this SNAP. It just seems more intuitive
to me.
... JG
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