I really don't like special-casing this for the installation.
There's got to be a more technically correct solution for this
and I urge you guys to pursue it. :)

- Jordan

> Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote:
> > 
> > It's fine that GENERIC is used for installation.  But, GENERIC is
> > supposed to be for "generic" use, in which more people are expected to
> > use the parallel port for printing than for PLIP.
> > 
> > I would suggest the parallel port should be configured with the "tty"
> > mask in GENERIC.  The kernel for the install floppy can change it to
> > the "net" mask; the kernel configuration file for the install floppy
> > is generated from GENERIC by modifying bits and pieces anyway.
> 
> Go talk to the Release Engineer. I don't make this kind of decisions.
> 
> --
> Daniel C. Sobral                      (8-DCS)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>       "If you consider our help impolite, you should see the manager."
> 
> 
> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message



To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Reply via email to