From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 11 18:26:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA14136 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 18:26:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [206.151.208.162]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA14131 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 18:26:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA06927; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 20:26:13 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 20:26:12 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" X-Sender: winter@sasami To: Sean Kelly cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Don't hit.. In-Reply-To: <199606111539.PAA10507@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Sean Kelly wrote: > Of course, FreeBSD's situation is different, and a set of tips might > actually help out in some cases. But consider all the possible > mindsets a user might be in during an install ... ``Damn, I > misconfigured the port address! Damn, I didn't leave enough space for > /usr/games! Damn, it panicked! Damn, these tips are annoying!'' I don't think I've ever seen all the little progress bars... /bin/ls hits the disk about 20 seconds after the filesystems get created and I'm off and running on the holo-shell. :) In addition, they can switch to the debug screen if they want to see something different. :) Have a good one. | Matthew N. Dodd | winter@jurai.net | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | | Technical Manager | mdodd@intersurf.net | http://www.intersurf.net | | InterSurf Online | "Welcome to the net Sir, would you like a handbasket?"|