From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 14 00:11:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA09547 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 May 1997 00:11:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA09509 for ; Wed, 14 May 1997 00:10:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sirius.we.lc.ehu.es by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA09460; Wed, 14 May 1997 09:10:16 +0200 From: borjam@we.lc.ehu.es (Borja Marcos) Received: by sirius.we.lc.ehu.es (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27833; Wed, 14 May 97 09:18:30 +0200 Message-Id: <9705140718.AA27833@sirius.we.lc.ehu.es> Subject: Re: 2.2 Splashkit To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 09:18:29 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <33795F31.6B64@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> from "Pedro F. Giffuni" at May 13, 97 11:44:01 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Anyway.. What's so good about graphical installation programs? I have had a small www server in a 386 with 8 MB RAM and an MDA card. Yes, that old card that couldn't even do graphics! The old IBM green phosphor monitor is quite cool. Borja. > > Warner Losh wrote: > > > > In message <3378F899.70DA@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> "Pedro F. Giffuni" writes: > > : Ugh !! Are you suggesting we should include xdm on the installation > > : floppy? > > > Ooops! I forgot an smiley here. I know we want something like OS2's > installation but with an added screensaver. The only thing I really hope > is that no one decides to add color-ls as the default. > > > > No. However, an X server on a CDROM and some way for it to run in low > > res mode would be way cool. Many moderm machines can boot directly > > off a cdrom. > > > This idea seriously is not bad at all, we can keep it for the next > century. > > > None of this is to say that this is *REQUIRED*, just that if you have > > this available, it would be used. However, it is a lot of work... > > > > Warner > > Pedro. > -- *********************************************************************** Borja Marcos * Internet: borjam@we.lc.ehu.es Alangoeta, 11 1 izq * borjam@well.com 48990 - Algorta (Vizcaya) * borjamar@sarenet.es SPAIN * CompuServe: 100015,3502 ***********************************************************************