From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 13 16:50:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 917CB15630; Thu, 13 May 1999 16:50:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA02242; Thu, 13 May 1999 16:45:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199905132345.QAA02242@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: Mike Smith , John Fieber , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GENERIC 3.2-BETA kernel and printing In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 13 May 1999 15:14:15 PDT." <19990513151415.A24853@nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 16:45:52 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > If it changes to tty, what breaks (and who will that inconvenience)? > > > > It probably breaks PLIP, ie. network installs for laptops. > > Is it possible to change `GENERIC' to "tty" and create a new kernel > config file, `INSTALL' where we tweak it for things like this. Having We tried this before. It doesn't work too good. > 'bpf' active in `GENERIC' for DHCP installs (when we get to it), is > another example of where what we need for installs may not be best in > `GENERIC'. No, having bpf in the install kernel and not in GENERIC would be extra-unsmart if we go to DHCP. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message