Beastie

John-Mark Gurney gurney_j at resnet.uoregon.edu
Tue Nov 30 17:09:05 PST 2004


Edwin Groothuis wrote this message on Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:21 +1100:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 11:08:15PM +0000, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:25:59PM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> > > On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 05:23:40PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > > That option is already there, you didn't look hard enough.
> > > 
> > > It's not really the easiest option to find kris...
> > > 
> > > 	beastie_disable="YES"
> > 
> > What do you suggest to make it easier? 
> 
> I already knew it has to do with the loader.conf, so I checked it
> man page of it. I checked the DEFAULT SETTINGS section (because
> it's an often asked question), and would put it in there:
> 
>     beastie_disable
> 	(``NO'') If set to ``YES'', it will not show the ASCII
> 	Beastie in the boot menu.

I don't see how it's much different than all the options listed in
/etc/defaults/rc.conf, it's clearly listed in /boot/defaults/loader.conf..

Though a man page entry is useful...

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