Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 21:28:30 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com> Cc: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hacker's list) Subject: Re: X for install Message-ID: <2771.820646910@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Jan 1996 23:02:46 CST." <199601030503.XAA02277@chrome.jdl.com>
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> This sounds to me like the same general goal as the separation of > the hardware detection process during boot -- part of the detect, > semi-probe, negotiate, allocate, attach process that we've often > discussed. Can the same core be used for both the normal UNIX boot > process and for the initial system config/install process? Or am > I totally in the weeds here? If coverage was complete enough (e.g. *all* the useful devices were detected and reportable somehow) then I certainly don't see why not! I'd kill for a decent "here's where everything is" interface in sysinstall, and it wouldn't really matter to me where the detection happened - by the time you've invoked sysinstall, you've pretty much finished (or certainly should have) all the probing and configuration. Jordan
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