Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 15:20:12 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: That Doug Guy <tiller@connectnet.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Atapi.flp Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970213151602.6915B-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199702130856.AAA18131@smtp.connectnet.com>
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On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, That Doug Guy wrote: > Since the question about the atapi.flp comes up sooooooooooo > often, and is likely to continue to come up since the "Complete FreeBSD" > books that are already out there aren't going to get changed anytime soon > (*grin*) has anyone given thought to symlink'ing boot.flp to atapi.flp on the > ftp site and/or the CD's? I'm sure y'all could figure out a mechanism for > letting the people know the "truth" somewhere down the road, but at least > having a file that matched their expectations would get the newbies off and > running. All I'm going to say is, atapi.flp is not referenced in the INSTALL.TXT which *everyone* should read before installing FreeBSD. Complete FreeBSD is wrong, but as is the case with print media, it is very difficult to update. A large msg is posted here regularly lisiting the errors in that text, the atapi.flp error is in there. The problem with symlinking the file is that we're just postponing the inevitable removal of the file and no doubt people will grab both and try both even though they are exactly identical, and we will then excise it so people stop making this silly mistake, so it's one silly mistake for another. > PS, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease tell me that someone has done an > exhaustive search through all the docs and exorcised this particular > daemon for 2.2? :) > > I do not detect any references to atapi.flp in the install files or handbook/faq, so it should be permanently dead. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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