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Date:      Wed, 13 Sep 1995 08:02:21 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, davidg@Root.COM, current@FreeBSD.ORG, fenner@parc.xerox.com
Subject:   Re: userconfig doesn't work on tvi925
Message-ID:  <199509122232.IAA23106@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199509121740.KAA14390@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at Sep 12, 95 10:40:30 am

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Paul Traina stands accused of saying:
> 
>   I don't call a newbie booting the kernel on non-conforming hardware an
>   "emergency". 
> 
> I would certainly consider an utter newbie booting a kernel on a machine
> that doesn't have the FDC in the right location to be an "exception"...

I don't follow you : You say that userconfig should only be used in an
emergency.  I point out that it's _required_ if one is to be able to install 
on hardware that isn't configured to exactly match the distribution kernel.

I think you're still flogging your floppy/console only boot concept, which 
has already been dismissed as impractical.

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