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> > A lot of people here will disagree with me, perhaps, but when I look at
> > the bootup screen for Solaris2, I see a finish built for users who don't
> > know or care about hardware details etc (makes FreeBSD and others look
> > like "hacks").  If I could, I'd advocate that the free unixes have a
> > similar quiet boot as default and a "verbose" option to see all the junk
> 
> For those of us who've never seen a Solaris2 machine boot up, could
> you perhaps tell us (though config@freebsd.org would be perhaps a
> better mailing list on which to do it) what it looks like and what
> about it you found so attractive?

Remember the boot splash discussion?

Now you know.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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