From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 25 14:41:13 1995 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA19501 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 14:41:13 -0700 Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA19441 ; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 14:40:43 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id SAA00471 ; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 18:32:52 +0100 To: John Fieber cc: stable@freebsd.org, "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: Oct 20 snap install... In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Oct 1995 10:59:09 CDT." Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 18:32:50 +0100 Message-ID: <469.814642370@palmer.demon.co.uk> From: Gary Palmer Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk John Fieber stands accused of writing in message ID : >* Can the boot prompt switches be document in a useful place, i.e. at > the boot prompt? Not really - there isn't enough room in the boot blocks to do all the stuff we want as it is, and definately not enough room to put explanations of the various boot flags. This is one reason why a lot of people are shouting for a 3 stage boot process. >* Can I set things up so I can boot without typing -r every time? Yes: recompile the bootblocks with BOOT_HD. This will (AFAIR) make the boot blocks default to using sd0 instead of wd0, and pass the right parameters to the kernel (so I don't think you need the -r flag anymore). This is what I use here to get round the same problem. >* Why does the kernel think it is booting from sd1 anyway? What boot name did you use? If you use ``hd(1,a)/kernel'' you should be OK. Can't remember - it's been so long since I needed to use it :-) >Other comments: >* The "progress bars" in sysinstall often overshoot the right border of > their box. This is a problem with the cursor. It's never turned off, so it looks like the progress bar is actually extending past the end of the box when it's not. I even believe there is a PR for this, but no-one has bothered to go into the guts of libdialog and fix it, esp. since 2.2 will use a completely different technology. (The problem has been known about since early in the 2.0.5 release process, but we didn't have any time to do anything about it then, and we were all shattered afterwards :-) ) >* What exactly is the intended action of "Undo all" from the > slice and disklabel screens? Pass. Never used them / looked at the code. >* The difference between FTP active and FTP passive needs to be > documented on the media selection help screen. I'm not so sure that we need to. If you need to use passive mode FTP (as you are behind a packet filtering router (a.k.a. a firewall)), you know to look for the option and select it. Otherwise you don't really need to touch the setting. Mebbe if you can come up with a short one or two line description then Jordan will put it in. I can't come up with a short desc. of the differences, but then again maybe I'm too close to the problem (and know WAY too many details about the differences :-/ ) Gary