Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:13:07 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_K=F6vesd=E1n?= <gabor@FreeBSD.org> To: Joao Barros <joao.barros@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall: Write the FreeBSD version at the top of the display Message-ID: <44B573F3.4020400@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <70e8236f0607121458k38f91fb2vfd402bb45334fc71@mail.gmail.com> References: <70e8236f0607121458k38f91fb2vfd402bb45334fc71@mail.gmail.com>
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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 <kern.osrelease> <hw.machine_arch> - 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
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