Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 08:47:58 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot floppy banner Message-ID: <4667.886265278@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 31 Jan 1998 17:34:42 %2B0100." <Pine.NEB.3.95.980131173008.20289C-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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> OTOH, this version is much better than previous one... so at least we're > heading in good direction :-)) I believe the goal behind the current message was to eliminate all those novice users saying "how do I boot off the 1st drive on my 2nd controller?" - the information presented there may be cryptic, but it's also pretty useful if you're totally lost as to what your device name should be or how you can specify the partition and bios logical drive# independently. "Hello, and welcome to FreeBSD!" is certainly more friendly, but does very little to actually aid the user. :-) Jordan
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