Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 06:54:04 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> Cc: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: 2.2.7 install overwrites bootsect Message-ID: <12303.904571644@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 31 Aug 1998 09:39:47 CDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980831093706.17306A-100000@bright.fx.genx.net>
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Actually, I can almost predict what he did (and the blame falls more on the key binding scheme in libdialog than the user because I see it all the time). He saw the boot manager menu with (*) Boot Manager selected by default, and then he used the arrow key to go down to ( ) None but then hit return (for OK) rather than SPACE to toggle the radio menu's state. It wants a space. The docs say in several places that it wants a space. Doesn't matter. People still move the cursor to the option and then just hit return because they're used to that model with other interfaces, and with libdialog what it does is drop you six feet with a rope around your neck instead. Slightly different way of doing things, our little libdialog, and it's a PITA. Just one more reason to hate libdialog, but probably still not enough motivation to write a replacement. :) - Jordan > > I gave a 2.2.7 dist kit to a (sceptic?) colleague. I was hoping > > him coming back as a missionaire. Grrm, he told me, FreeBSD install > > had overwritten his bootsector (NT) although he explicitly clicked > > the option that was promising to leave the bootsector intact. > > "clicked" ? :) *giggle* > > he most probably experianced PEBCAK. > i've seen people who were told to try freebsd just breeze through the > install not really reading _any_ of the prompts then swear when it > misbehaves. > > i've never had the freebsd util not do what it says it's going to do. > > Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com > -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. > -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 3.0-current > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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