From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 8 11:05:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8D9416A4CE for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 11:05:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from deluge.umist.ac.uk (deluge.umist.ac.uk [130.88.120.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1143F43D2D for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 11:05:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lewiz@red.lewiz.org) Received: from lh014.halls.umist.ac.uk ([130.88.163.14] helo=yellow.lewiz.org) by deluge.umist.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1B0Q4J-0000mP-Mw; Mon, 08 Mar 2004 19:05:39 +0000 Received: from red.lewiz.org ([192.168.0.4]) by mail.lewiz.org with smtp (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1B0Q4f-00030G-UJ; Mon, 08 Mar 2004 19:06:01 +0000 Received: (nullmailer pid 11546 invoked by uid 4001); Mon, 08 Mar 2004 19:06:00 -0000 Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 19:05:59 +0000 From: Lewis Thompson To: Jerry McAllister Message-ID: <20040308190559.GA11477@lewiz.org> Mail-Followup-To: Lewis Thompson , Jerry McAllister , JJB , Donald Turnbull , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Bob Johnson References: <20040308104301.GB2269@lewiz.org> <200403081453.i28ErFq09217@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="liOOAslEiF7prFVr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200403081453.i28ErFq09217@clunix.cl.msu.edu> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 90A4 939E 3847 A3E4 8103 2A48 22DA B428 542F ED3F X-GPG-Info: http://www.lewiz.org/~lewiz/pgpkey / horowitz.surfnet.nl User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean cc: Donald Turnbull cc: JJB cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Bob Johnson Subject: Re: Installation - More user friendly X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 19:05:41 -0000 --liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:53:15AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > >=20 > > On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:28:03PM -0500, JJB wrote: > > > Right at the beginning of sysinstall should be warning about what > > > to set PC bios options to, like plugNplay off, power management > > > off, boot time virus check disabled, PCI irq assignments set to > > > auto, OS type set to non-windows, ect. Give then option to cancel > > > sysinstall to set bios. > >=20 > > Or, alternatively, we could just put a URL to the documentation... >=20 > That works if it can read locally, can sysinstall handle html? If it > must go out to the net, can it do that? Probably not at that stage. > Many of us can not afford to have an extra machine around to read > online documentation while doing an install. The install is on the > only machine we have. I was making the point that few people read the documentation /before/ they pop the CD in the drive. If a lot of people (I'm not saying this is you, at all) bothered to do this it really would save them a lot of hassle. As for PnP, IRQ assignments, etc. -- these would /all/ be sorted /before/ the disc was booted from. Your idea is quite nice though -- the Handbook could easily be converted to plaintext and fired up on a virtual terminal. -lewiz. --=20 I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -| msn:purple@lewiz.net | jabber:lewiz@jabber.org | url:www.lewiz.org |- --liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQFATMQXItq0KFQv7T8RAixKAJiTYvKk8bAo/e/TqbCbvZhRevXfAJ0f/I9r YXGt6c7SPlQNRhKFTGf41g== =VoUu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --liOOAslEiF7prFVr--