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Date:      Fri, 12 Oct 2001 15:43:20 -0700
From:      Jordan Hubbard <jkh@freebsd.org>
To:        doconnor@gsoft.com.au
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kern.flp blown out again
Message-ID:  <20011012154320F.jkh@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20010913184321.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
References:  <20010913020849Y.jkh@freebsd.org> <XFMail.20010913184321.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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Cool!  Committed to -current.  Of course, this should really be rolled
into the loader so that the sequence is more like this:

<boot kern.flp>
Would you like to load any additional kernel modules (y/n)? y
Please insert modules floppy and press return:
<forth script runs which presents menu for all items on modules floppy,
 doing loads on any selected>
Please insert mfsroot floppy and press return:
<mfsroot is loaded as usual>
<system boots into sysinstall>

That way there's no need for a deviceRescan() and the user doesn't
have to remember to invoke the Load KLD menu item before selecting an
Installation type.  I remember some german(?) guy even writing a bunch
of FICL primitives for doing those sorts of UIs.  I wonder what ever
happened to that stuff?

- Jordan


> 
> On 13-Sep-2001 Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> >  Cool, can I see it?
> 
> Sure..
> http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/sysinstall-kld.diff
> 
> Mmm dynamic libdialog menus :)
> 
> ---
> Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
> for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
> "The nice thing about standards is that there
> are so many of them to choose from."
>   -- Andrew Tanenbaum

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