Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 17:48:41 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Oct 20 snap install... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951025173623.227A-100000@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <469.814642370@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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On Wed, 25 Oct 1995, Gary Palmer wrote: > >* Why does the kernel think it is booting from sd1 anyway? > > What boot name did you use? If you use ``hd(1,a)/kernel'' you should > be OK. Can't remember - it's been so long since I needed to use it :-) Hm.... `hd(1,a)/kernel' does work. I was try `sd(0,a)/kernel' which had the very counter-intuitive result of booting from wd0. However, `-r' is a little quicker to type... It looks like its time for me to learn about boot code whether I want to or not! > >* The difference between FTP active and FTP passive needs to be > > documented on the media selection help screen. > > I'm not so sure that we need to. If you need to use passive mode FTP > (as you are behind a packet filtering router (a.k.a. a firewall)), you > know to look for the option and select it. Otherwise you don't really > need to touch the setting. Wrong answer. The people who need passive don't need the documentation. The rest, and that would be the majority, will do like I did and go "Huh? What the hell is the difference between active and passive ftp?" and not know which one to select appropriate. In fact, a better alternative would be to rephrase the options to be less cryptic, e.g.: [ ] FTP (normal) [ ] FTP (through a firewall) -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ============
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