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From: deeken@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Hans-Christoph Deeken)
Subject: Re: new new scsi release beta2 part 1 of 5 (fixed)SKIP
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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 14:42:55 GMT
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In article <rwa.717885468@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>, rwa@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Ross Alexander) writes:
> 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executable, remembering to delete the devices which are no longer applicable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.
GrrmmppffhihihihiHAHAHAHA *ROTFL* :-)
Seriously: take your newsreader and take a look at Terry's postings, as far
as they are not expired. And then rethink your article.
IMHO, he is right. You shouldn't have to do all these things manually, when the
computer could easily do it for you. The more steps you have to take, the
easier you make mistakes.
> Ross
Hannes
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