In the immortal words of Claire Q'vant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Hmm. Starting X(albeit minimal) is not what I'm after,
> as it needs to appear as soon as the kernel is loaded
> - directly after the POST screen...
> The filesystem isn't mounted for a while after that,
> as the kernel detects hardwar
Thanks Joshua and Tim!
A fake splash might be just the trick ;-)
Now to find some sweet little icons...
Regards,
Claire.
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We're going to have a booth at a trade show in a few
months, and we'd like to have a few machines running
FreeBSD for people to play with.
But, as a crowd puller, it'd be nice to have a
graphical bootup sequence.
I know it's not the 'done thing' for a server OS, but
for a workstation OS, it's a v
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:53:29PM +0100 or thereabouts, Claire Q'vant wrote:
> We're going to have a booth at a trade show in a few
> months, and we'd like to have a few machines running
> FreeBSD for people to play with.
>
> But, as a crowd puller, it'd be nice to have a
> graphical bootup seque
--- Joshua Oreman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On
Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:53:29PM +0100 or
> thereabouts, Claire Q'vant wrote:
> > We're going to have a booth at a trade show in a
> few
> > months, and we'd like to have a few machines
> running
> > FreeBSD for people to play with.
> >
> > But, as
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 12:57:09AM +0100 or thereabouts, Claire Q'vant wrote:
> --- Joshua Oreman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On
> Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:53:29PM +0100 or
> > thereabouts, Claire Q'vant wrote:
> > > We're going to have a booth at a trade show in a
> > few
> > > months, and we'd l
>Basically, it involves starting up a minimal X server.
Maybe this is totally off-the-wall and completely wrong, but it seems to
me that, up until the box goes multi-user, thrashing the screen with
potentially meaning(ful/less) graphics is not going to cause serious
problems.
The break betwee
