Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 14:03:57 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: paul@netcraft.co.uk Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, handy@sxt2.space.lockheed.com Subject: Re: Fixit Floppy Broken? Message-ID: <199603302103.OAA09744@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199603301231.MAA00590@originat.demon.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Mar 30, 96 12:31:16 pm
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> I think it's a design error to have fixit be shoe-horned into sysinstall. > Let's just have a plain and simple set of tools. If you're damaged to the > point where you need to use it then you're into the "expert" area and > a nice gui is not very relevant and is just a waste of space. > > Now, if someone is concerned about naive users spamming themselves then > perhaps we need to think about an automated recovery disk but that's not > what fixit is all about. What, like: 1) I forgot my root password, set it it 'dork' 2) It wants me to fsck my '/' parition 3) I tried (unsuccessfully) to start X from /etc/ttys 4) ... ? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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