Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:18:16 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: 2.2.7 install overwrites bootsect Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980831101705.17400A-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <12303.904571644@time.cdrom.com>
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perhaps this is a good place for an "Are you sure" dialog, yucky, but they are in other places in sysinstall. (espec if NT partitions are detected) Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 3.0-current On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Actually, I can almost predict what he did (and the blame falls more > on the key binding scheme in libdialog than the user because I see it > all the time). He saw the boot manager menu with (*) Boot Manager > selected by default, and then he used the arrow key to go down to ( ) > None but then hit return (for OK) rather than SPACE to toggle the > radio menu's state. It wants a space. The docs say in several places > that it wants a space. Doesn't matter. People still move the cursor > to the option and then just hit return because they're used to that > model with other interfaces, and with libdialog what it does is drop > you six feet with a rope around your neck instead. Slightly different > way of doing things, our little libdialog, and it's a PITA. > > Just one more reason to hate libdialog, but probably still not enough > motivation to write a replacement. :) > > - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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