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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!pacbell.com!decwrl!atha!aupair.cs.athabascau.ca!rwa From: rwa@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Ross Alexander) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: new new scsi release beta2 part 1 of 5 (fixed)SKIP Message-ID: <rwa.717885468@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> Date: 30 Sep 92 20:37:48 GMT References: <1992Sep23.221352.16254@tfs.com> <1992Sep28.130134.36@vtrm01.uucp> <1992Sep29.000351.8023@tfs.com> <1992Sep29.231322.19770@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <BvDprK.K8n@BitBlocks.com> Sender: news@cs.athabascau.ca Lines: 23 terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: >Currently, the command line configuration tools are abominable. I shouldn't >have to edit my file (hoping I have the right one) to change an IRQ or add >pty's, config it, change directories (making sure I get the one named the >same as my file), make depend, make, and then manually install the resulting >executable, remembering to delete the devices which are no longer applicable >to my new configuration, and adding the ones which are but did not exist >prior to the most recent rebuild. <yawn, another newbie...> If you can't handle it, admit you're an incompetent and stay out of the kitchen. You might change your silly mail address too; a wizard indeed! Real wizards don't so much as imagine that the simple list of trivial steps you mention are worth spending time on, much less kvetching about. Just run the GENERIC kernel, and leave the hacking to your betters. Ross -- Ross Alexander rwa@cs.athabascau.ca (403) 675 6311 ve6pdq@ve6mgs.ampr.org