Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:52:59 +0100 From: "Joao Barros" <joao.barros@gmail.com> To: gabor@t-hosting.hu, "Martin Nilsson" <martin@gneto.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall: Write the FreeBSD version at the top of the display Message-ID: <70e8236f0607141452h10c93503i4c07d3ade1a64257@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44B573F3.4020400@FreeBSD.org> References: <70e8236f0607121458k38f91fb2vfd402bb45334fc71@mail.gmail.com> <44B573F3.4020400@FreeBSD.org>
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On 7/12/06, G=E1bor K=F6vesd=E1n <gabor@freebsd.org> wrote: > Joao Barros wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I was browsing the list of projects and ideas and stumbled upon one > > that's rather simple and which would have been useful in the past: > > Write the FreeBSD version at the top of the display (or somewhere > > similar visible) - so lazy users know what they are installing > > (version: release, stable, snapshot + arch: i386, amd64, etc) even > > when the CD is unlabeled. > > > > I'm changing the title of the Main menu using sysctlbyname to: > > "FreeBSD <kern.osrelease> <hw.machine_arch> - sysinstall Main Menu" > > The result would be: > > "FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 - sysinstall Main Menu" > > Screenshot of the result: > > http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/980/sysintall17vv.png > > > > If this is what is pretended I'll post the patch. > > > I think this is pretended, but anyway, it's a nice feature, so I suggest > you send-pr-ing the patch by all. Hi, Here's the PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D100309 --=20 Joao Barros
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