Re: Beginners using 1.3
Stephen Lee (sl14@crux1.cit.cornell.edu)
Thu, 22 Feb 1996 12:17:24 -0500
On Feb 22, 12:41pm, System Admin wrote:
>
> On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, Stephen Lee wrote:
>
> > Of course it should be able to be bypassed. Say a kernel command line
> > option
> >
> > betakey=458739
> >
> > which is a random number that changes with each release. Then people will
> > get the screen the first time they install a new beta kernel, and be able
> > to disable it in lilo.conf.
> What about just doing it at compile time? "This is a bata kernel, etc...
> press any key ('cept ctrl-c) to continue...." when you make config?
That wouldn't work if a beginner gets a kernel from somebody else, and I
think those would be most clueless (not in the bad sense of the word).
Stephen
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