Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 14:28:06 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: bartol@salk.edu (Tom Bartol) Cc: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 961006-SNAP comments Message-ID: <199610091928.OAA17850@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.93.961009094044.2082E-100000@pauling.salk.edu> from "Tom Bartol" at Oct 9, 96 10:12:48 am
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> How about having two different boot floppies -- one which does the plain > vanilla GENERIC thing and one for experts which defaults to the config > editor. That way everyone is happy and if you run into a machine with a > cantankerous set of hardware you can reboot with the "expert" boot floppy. Comment: the "experts" will generally be smart enough to boot with "-c" if needed so there is little reason to have a floppy for them. (I don't quite qualify because I forget -c about 50% of the time when I need it, but I certainly don't blame the install process). I think the real question is whether or not the configuration behavior is appropriate for a novice user. FWIW, I like the one floppy thing too. ... JG
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