From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 30 13:09:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA10643 for current-outgoing; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 13:09:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA10636 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 13:09:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA09744; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 14:03:58 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199603302103.OAA09744@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Fixit Floppy Broken? To: paul@netcraft.co.uk Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 14:03:57 -0700 (MST) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, handy@sxt2.space.lockheed.com In-Reply-To: <199603301231.MAA00590@originat.demon.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Mar 30, 96 12:31:16 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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.