From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 12 22:13:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21AC016A4E5 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:13:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gabor@FreeBSD.org) Received: from server.t-hosting.hu (server.t-hosting.hu [217.20.133.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 689BB43D5D for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:13:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gabor@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.t-hosting.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EFF099AAEE; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:13:21 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at t-hosting.hu Received: from server.t-hosting.hu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server.t-hosting.hu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id mg9E8Alw+cUA; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:13:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.2.186] (catv-50635cb6.catv.broadband.hu [80.99.92.182]) by server.t-hosting.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22F9E99A6D5; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:13:13 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <44B573F3.4020400@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:13:07 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_K=F6vesd=E1n?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joao Barros References: <70e8236f0607121458k38f91fb2vfd402bb45334fc71@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <70e8236f0607121458k38f91fb2vfd402bb45334fc71@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall: Write the FreeBSD version at the top of the display X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gabor@t-hosting.hu List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:13:30 -0000 Joao Barros wrote: > Hi all, > > I was browsing the list of projects and ideas and stumbled upon one > that's rather simple and which would have been useful in the past: > Write the FreeBSD version at the top of the display (or somewhere > similar visible) - so lazy users know what they are installing > (version: release, stable, snapshot + arch: i386, amd64, etc) even > when the CD is unlabeled. > > I'm changing the title of the Main menu using sysctlbyname to: > "FreeBSD - sysinstall Main Menu" > The result would be: > "FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 - sysinstall Main Menu" > Screenshot of the result: > http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/980/sysintall17vv.png > > If this is what is pretended I'll post the patch. > I think this is pretended, but anyway, it's a nice feature, so I suggest you send-pr-ing the patch by all. Cheers, Gabor