boot banner project

[cpghost]

John Sconiers wrote:

>Adding less then a meg here or there is not bloat.
>
It is a mistake to assume that memory is cheap and always easily
available and/or upgradable. There are quite a lot of embedded
systems out there, that run FreeBSD out-of-the-box, without the
need to tweak or manually remove all that unnecessary eye candy.
Such systems come with RAM soldered on-board, so they are
impossible to upgrade.

If you really want a GUIfied installer (and please remember that
some hardware like Soekris boxes don't even have VGA circuitery!),
then please only as a port (that would create a custom boot image),
or as an optional add-on. The default install should still be possible
over serial line and on striped down hardware.

The same holds true for boot banners: not every hardware out there
has hires graphics capabilities.

Regards,
-cpghost.

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