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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: 961006-SNAP comments
To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich)
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 09:06:44 -0500 (CDT)
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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