On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 04:36:25PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
-> On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:26:51PM +0200, Denis HAVLIK wrote:
-> -> (I hope you do not get this twice on expert list)
-> -> ---------
-> -> Hi, folks!
-> ->
-> -> What follows is probably a single most important letter I ever posted on
-> -> these mailing lists, so please read it very carefully!
->
->
-> Anything you can do to provide reasonable defaults would help. To give a
-> simple example, if the user provides a class C IP address, give her a
-> class three default netmask. Then a default gateway on the same
-> network. Similarly, if the user is installing via FTP or NFS, and provides
-> an IP address and netmask, make those available as the defaults for the
-> permanent IP address, if any.
->
-> Anything you can do to probe the hardware and offer the results as
-> defaults is welcome. This should be easy to do with PCI cards and SCSI
-> busses, assuming you can get the data from the manufacturer.
->
-> Something to look at here is tomsrtbt. It simply walks through all the
-> modules on the disk and tries each one. So if you have a zip disk, it
-> installs ppa.o for you. This is dangerous, however, as it can lock up on
-> legacy hardware, such as NE-2000 clone cards.
I should have been clearer. This, too, is a request for installation.
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