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Who in the heck said this stuff is going on the generic boot floppy?
People sure are jumping to a lot of strange conclusions around here
lately - is it the weather?  El Nino perhaps? :-)

					Jordan

> Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > 
> > I'm not sure what you mean.
> > 
> If space is the problem, all stuff that is unnecessary for the
> installation, like the dib map of the screensaver, should be left out of
> the boot floppy. a second "bloated" kernel can be installed afterwards.
> Keep BAD144 !   
> 
> I add that my experience with new users indicates that they don't trust
> FreeBSD at first, and therefore will install it on the oldest machine
> available, before they decide to move.
> 
> 	Pedro.
> 
> > > Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The splash screen stuff is another kettle of fish - I can think of a
> > > > number of commercial folks who'd like their logo to come up when
> > > > FreeBSD boots and such things don't interfere with text based installs
> > > > anyway, so why not?
> > > >
> > > The fancy stuff can wait until *AFTER* the system is installed.
> > >
> > >       Pedro.
> > >
> > >
> > > >                                         Jordan
> > >
> > >