Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 19:32:14 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 961006-SNAP comments Message-ID: <27046.845260334@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 Oct 1996 03:51:28 %2B0200." <199610140151.DAA19170@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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> Before the installation continues, FreeBSD will have to know what kind > of hardware you are using. Please choose the way you would like to get > your system set up: > > 0. Help > --> 1. Continue with generic boot (Recommended) > 2. Automatic probing for special hardware > 3. Manual configuration > 4. Expert configuration Grab the current boot floppy from ftp://whisker.cdrom.com/pub/2.2-961012-SNAP and let me know if this is closer to what you'd like to see. > "2" would (after pretty much the same "warning, if the computer hangs, > reset it" warning as win95 has) do a major probing thing, trying to > find out what the system contained, pretty much like win95 does. Heh. That's a LOT easier to describe than to implement, so unless you've got some amazing diffs to offer me, consider that a "long term to never" feature ;-). > Also... There have been a "load preconfigured setup" or something like > that for a while in the setup (haven't tried the two latest SNAPs at all, > yet, sorry) and it just strikes me as pretty silly no to have a "save" Erm, save _what_? To the new kernel? Check out the new boot floppy. Jordan
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