From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 29 00:53:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA27564 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 00:53:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles244.castles.com [208.214.165.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA27545 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 00:53:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA01520; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 00:50:27 GMT (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199808290050.AAA01520@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Masafumi NAKANE/=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCQ2Y6LDJtSjgbKEI=?= cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 29 Aug 1998 15:55:37 +0900." <19980829155537G.masafumi@aslm.rim.or.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 00:50:25 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I tested this on my box. I added three ^G to the end of boot.help and > it worked very well. Once proper documentation is provided (I will > write something for either FAQ or the handbook), this will help many > people who want to install FreeBSD to PC without a display monitor. > > I will make this change to /sys/i386/boot/biosboot/boot.help if I > don't hear any objection within next a few days. I'm not sure that this would be popular in the general case; I would certainly be less than thrilled to have my systems screaming at me every time I reboot, and while I can easily do something about this, it's less simple to explain to what does amount to the majority of our userbase why their systems are so noisy. For the installation, I can appreciate that this is an excellent idea, and it should be quite easy to add these to the release makefile. But once the system is installed, it ought to be configured to default to the serial console, removing the need for the tone at all. This, I expect along with a number of other things, would make a good start for an "accessibility pack", or a set of accessibility-related customisations which should be configurable at install time. -- \\ 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-hackers" in the body of the message