From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 8 3:29:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.erols.com (smtp3.erols.com [207.172.3.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02E3314D14 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 03:29:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (207-172-143-79.s16.as1.hgt.md.dialup.rcn.com [207.172.143.79]) by smtp3.erols.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA01764; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 06:29:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199907081029.GAA01764@smtp3.erols.com> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 06:29:36 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Subject: Re: Splash Screens (was Re: 3.2-RELEASE Feedback) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Jim Mock , Randall Hopper Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 03-Jul-99 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Randall Hopper writes: >> Ok, I didn't know what to do with: >> >> include /boot/loader.4th >> start >> >> which were already in this file, so I commented them out. I was lucky. > > They're not much use unless you want to use loader.conf (loader.4th > reads loader.conf and does magic stuff as directed by variables > defined there, much like /etc/rc does magic stuff as directed by > /etc/rc.conf) > >> So I went splash shopping. > > I use the Saturn pics myself, though for some mysterious reason > they're not on the advocacy site. They're by far the best splash > screens I've seen, as they were designed specifically for that purpose > (rather than just being *adapted* to that purpose). I think they're on > John Baldwin's site (there's a link from the advocacy page), but I > can't get through to it right now so I can't check. My site is down for the summer (can't afford a static IP), but the new screens are are going to be up on advocacy as soon as Jim and Rob give me the go ahead . --- John Baldwin -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message