Re: boot floppies status

[bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)]

I added a "do without a swap partition" menu item, with a dialog box
containing appropriate discouragement, but it will let you have your way
if you insist. Some options create customer support problems, this is
one of them, thus the discouragement.

Regarding the stupid "<5>" bug (it's the log-level from the kernel
printf), I'd encourage you to fix the kernel problem and send patches
to Linus.

Regarding netmasks, I need to rewrite the whole thing, but please send
a patch for now because I don't know when I'll get to rewriting it.

	Thanks

	Bruce

> From: "Mark W. Eichin" <eichin@cygnus.com>
> 
> Oh, and there's a longstanding bug (it is in 1.1beta and in 0.93r6) in
> the network config... it doesn't guess correctly with netmasks over 24
> bits when the upper bits of the fourth octet are non-zero. (Once the
> network is set correctly, it gets the guesses for default router and
> something else that I forget for the moment wrong: if my netmask is
> 255.255.255.192, and my net is x.y.z.128, x.y.z.1 is *not* on my net,
> and is thus not a good guess for the router (x.y.z.128+1 is better.)
> There's another prompt, either broadcast or something else, that makes
> a similar mistake, though I can't remember it for the moment.)
> 
> Note that this isn't important -- because you can fill it in correctly
> easily enough, and in practice a small net will probably have *no*
> values matching the defaults :-) I may look at the scripts myself and
> come up with an enhancement though.
> 
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