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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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