Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 17:16:12 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: boot floppy banner Message-ID: <199801310816.RAA25544@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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The boot block for 3.0-CURRENT and 2.2.5-RELEASE prints a screen-full
of message:
...
Usage: bios_drive:interface(unit,partition)kernel_name options
bios_drive 0, 1, ...
interface fd, wd or sd
unit 0, 1, ...
partition a, c, ...
[Blah, blah,...]
The text is read from /boot.help of the boot drive. While it is good
to have this help message once the OS is installed, it may be of very
little help to a first-time user who is booting our boot floppy.
Maybe we should make /boot.help on the boot floppy less technical.
Something like:
============================================================
---== Welcome to the 2.2.6 RELEASE version of FreeBSD! ==---
A Full 4.4 BSD Lite Based 32-bit Operating System
March 1998
FreeBSD Inc.
============================================================
Well, it doesn't look very interesting ;-<
Just a thought...
Kazu
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