We should be able to have both in a unified installer / banner. The same way Mac OS X, Solaris, Linux, Novell, etc.....have both.....or am I missing something........ JOHN On 4/29/05, cpghost <cpghost_at_cordula.ws> wrote: > John Sconiers wrote: > > >Adding less then a meg here or there is not bloat. > > > It is a mistake to assume that memory is cheap and always easily > available and/or upgradable. There are quite a lot of embedded > systems out there, that run FreeBSD out-of-the-box, without the > need to tweak or manually remove all that unnecessary eye candy. > Such systems come with RAM soldered on-board, so they are > impossible to upgrade. > > If you really want a GUIfied installer (and please remember that > some hardware like Soekris boxes don't even have VGA circuitery!), > then please only as a port (that would create a custom boot image), > or as an optional add-on. The default install should still be possible > over serial line and on striped down hardware. > > The same holds true for boot banners: not every hardware out there > has hires graphics capabilities. > > Regards, > -cpghost. > > -- > Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ > >Received on Fri Apr 29 2005 - 19:01:24 UTC
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