Scott Long wrote: > Roman Neuhauser wrote: > >> # scottl_at_freebsd.org / 2004-01-09 15:32:35 -0700: >> >>> Roman Neuhauser wrote: >>> >>>> I have two related questions, one being more appropriate for current_at_, >>>> the other for hackers_at_, but they're quite the same thing, so sorry for >>>> the cross-post, I hope it's tolerable (I bet this won't solicit many >>>> replies :). >>>> >>>> I dislike the boot menu in CURRENT, and would prefer something that >>>> >>>> * doesn't rob me of the text output so far >>>> * displays no mascots or other visual noise >> >> >> >>> The only point for putting the mascot onto the screen was to fill unused >>> space next to the menu. I you want to keep the menu and remove the >>> mascot, just remove the line in beastie-menu that calls print-beastie. >>> For astetics, you could then reformat the menu dimensions to take up the >>> whole screen. Of course, leaving the menu on the screen at all defeats >>> your first goal mentioned above. >> >> >> >> so there's no way of having something output without clearing the >> screen? then I might just disable the menu completely, supposing >> there's an alternative similar to (or same as) the boot prompt in >> STABLE, which I have no problem with. >> > > Remove the 'clear' word from beastie-start > > Scott > Actually, this isn't quite right since the menu and mascot will just overwrite whatever is already on the screen. The better solution would be to replace the 'clear' word in /boot/screen.4th with a version that spits out 25 line feeds. ScottReceived on Fri Jan 09 2004 - 14:03:08 UTC
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