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Date:      Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:08:37 +0200
From:      Martin Nilsson <martin@gneto.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sysinstall: Write the FreeBSD version at the top of the display
Message-ID:  <200607131108.37968.martin@gneto.com>
In-Reply-To: <70e8236f0607121458k38f91fb2vfd402bb45334fc71@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <70e8236f0607121458k38f91fb2vfd402bb45334fc71@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wednesday 12 July 2006 23:58, 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.

Excellent, it was something like that I thought of when submitting my "small 
sysinstall renovation" idea!

Thanks,
Martin



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