Re: Feedback on 4.0-RC3 (mostly good! :)

2000-03-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Walter Brameld wrote: > Yeah, I'll buy that. Now I gather it was not written by the commiters > and it's not their responsibility (?) to rewrite it. But is there any > point in keeing it? This is FreeBSD, no-one has any resposibilities whatsoever :-) It should probably ei

Re: Feedback on 4.0-RC3 (mostly good! :)

2000-03-10 Thread Walter Brameld
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Walter Brameld wrote: > On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Walter Brameld wrote: > > > > > I wonder about other nit-picky things, like why is sound.doc (to

Re: Feedback on 4.0-RC3 (mostly good! :)

2000-03-10 Thread Walter Brameld
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Walter Brameld wrote: > > > I wonder about other nit-picky things, like why is sound.doc (to > > which I've seen numorous RTFM references) still written for > > configurations under FreeBS

Re: Feedback on 4.0-RC3 (mostly good! :)

2000-03-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Walter Brameld wrote: > I wonder about other nit-picky things, like why is sound.doc (to > which I've seen numorous RTFM references) still written for > configurations under FreeBSD 2.1 ? Because no-one has rewritten it? Kris In God we Trust -- all others must submit

Re: Feedback on 4.0-RC3 (mostly good! :)

2000-03-10 Thread Walter Brameld
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Shaun (UNIX) wrote: > Hello, > > You are using RC3 ? Hmm...I wonder why you are not getting the ATA prob > problems like alot of us are. What is your system config? > > Yes it is FAST! and I love itI see that the 64MB memor

Re: Feedback on 4.0-RC3 (mostly good! :)

2000-03-10 Thread Jim Bloom
John Reynolds wrote: > 1) There is a typo (spelling error) in one of the dialogs I was presented. I > was trying to force pilot error into the situation :) and got a dialog that > contained the following line: > > "You can also chose "No" at the next prompt and go back into the >

Re: Feedback on 4.0-RC3 (mostly good! :)

2000-03-09 Thread John Reynolds
[ On Thursday, March 9, Shaun (UNIX) wrote: ] > Hello, > > You are using RC3 ? Hmm...I wonder why you are not getting the ATA prob > problems like alot of us are. What is your system config? > I'm using a P2B-DS Asus motherboard with BX chipset. Standard PIIX4 stuff. The drive is a Quantum

Re: Feedback on 4.0-RC3 (mostly good! :)

2000-03-09 Thread Shaun (UNIX)
Hello, You are using RC3 ? Hmm...I wonder why you are not getting the ATA prob problems like alot of us are. What is your system config? Yes it is FAST! and I love itI see that the 64MB memory problem has been fix at the install level. 3.x only reads 64MB of RAM at the floppy install.

Feedback on 4.0-RC3 (mostly good! :)

2000-03-09 Thread John Reynolds
OK, finally had a chance to frag the hard drive and install 4.0-RC3 from cdrom and see how it went. Here's my observations on the good: 1) On the same hardware as I tested 4.0-RC and 4.0-RC2 on, now I no longer get those "long ATA probes"! This is awesome! Whatever was done, is great, now