From owner-cvs-all Sun Apr 25 18:33:11 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from ns11.rim.or.jp (ns11.rim.or.jp [202.247.130.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9904714D4F; Sun, 25 Apr 1999 18:33:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from masafumi@aslm.rim.or.jp) Received: from rayearth.rim.or.jp (rayearth.rim.or.jp [202.247.130.242]) by ns11.rim.or.jp (8.8.8/3.5Wpl2-ns11/RIMNET-2) with ESMTP id KAA13444; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 10:33:01 +0900 (JST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by rayearth.rim.or.jp (8.8.8/3.5Wpl2-uucp1/RIMNET) with UUCP id KAA03228; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 10:33:01 +0900 (JST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.aslm.rim.or.jp (8.9.3/3.5Wpl3-SMTP) with ESMTP id KAA02254; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 10:32:27 +0900 (JST) To: jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@freebsd.org Cc: max@wide.ad.jp Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile From: Masafumi NAKANE In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 25 Apr 1999 20:36:44 -0400 (EDT)" References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.93 on Emacs 20.3 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) X-PGP-Fingerprint: 00 D8 2C CA C7 75 D4 40 5C 34 39 BA A5 46 C0 CC Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19990426103226Q.masafumi@aslm.rim.or.jp> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 10:32:26 +0900 X-Dispatcher: imput version 980905(IM100) Lines: 36 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk We are tryiing to serve wide variety of users, and this change helps serial console users dramatically. You might think there aren't too many of them. But presently, all blind users need to use serial console, at least for the installation. If you use the boot floppy that often, you can simply adjust the content of the floppy to your taste. Or, you can change the wiring and disable the PC speaker. Cheers, Max > Today Masafumi Max NAKANE wrote: >> Change the loader.rc in the boot floppy to: > [snip] >> 2. Beep when the mfs root floppy needs to be placed in the fdd. >> >> 3. Beep again when mfs root image is loaded and the loader >> waits for ten seconds before it starts booting for any input. >> (Serial console users can say " boot -h" here.) > Weren't the noises just recently removed? Oh well, it was nice > while it lasted. :( > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst > jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. > Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key > fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD > enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message