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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
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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executable, remembering to delete the devices which are no longer applicable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
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Ross Alexander  rwa@cs.athabascau.ca  (403) 675 6311  ve6pdq@ve6mgs.ampr.org