From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 9 12:30:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA24385 for current-outgoing; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 12:30:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA24380 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 12:30:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id OAA17850; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 14:28:07 -0500 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199610091928.OAA17850@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: 961006-SNAP comments To: bartol@salk.edu (Tom Bartol) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 14:28:06 -0500 (CDT) Cc: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca, freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Tom Bartol" at Oct 9, 96 10:12:48 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > How about having two different boot floppies -- one which does the plain > vanilla GENERIC thing and one for experts which defaults to the config > editor. That way everyone is happy and if you run into a machine with a > cantankerous set of hardware you can reboot with the "expert" boot floppy. Comment: the "experts" will generally be smart enough to boot with "-c" if needed so there is little reason to have a floppy for them. (I don't quite qualify because I forget -c about 50% of the time when I need it, but I certainly don't blame the install process). I think the real question is whether or not the configuration behavior is appropriate for a novice user. FWIW, I like the one floppy thing too. ... JG