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In-Reply-To: <199802061955.UAA06597@sos.freebsd.dk> from Sxren Schmidt at "Feb 6, 98 08:55:35 pm"
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As Sxren Schmidt wrote...
> In reply to Wilko Bulte who wrote:

> > And I cannot really understand why in parallel to this thread people are 
> > discussing adding useless junk (IMHO) called 'splash screens' to FreeBSD.
> > 
> > If I wanted graphical junk during install I'll go for M$ stuff. On the other
> > hand if people wanted to create an graphical install like Solaris Sparc
> > has...
> 
> Then I'd be running away screaming ;)

Hm. Well, running away from M$ I can understand, but I personally think the
graphical install stuff for Solaris Sparc is not bad.

> I can tell you though, that a new incarnation of the ata drivers wont
> have support for the old st506 & ESDI controllers. Its simply too 
> much junk to carry around. However we will still carry the old wd
> driver that will support those antiques.  As for the bad144 code,
> well, it has never solved my problems, just added some :)

This sounds just fine, because it at least does not eliminate the *option*
to use old junk hardware. I have the feeling there are more FreeBSD boxes
out there running on old hardware (can you say: machines no longer usable
for M$ S/W? ) than you might think.

Wilko
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