nigel@ind.tansu.com.au wrote:
> 
> 
> 	On Puma (ftp.macbsd.com) in the directory pub/NetBSD/booter/
> there is now a file Booter1.11.1b5.sea.hqx

Works like a charm!

> 	Changes from the previous version are:
> * Now uses a preferences file, rather than embedding settings in
>   the program's resources

This appears to work just fine.  It should also eliminate the need to
quit the Booter and restart it in order to save settings (I think I tested
this last night, but the Booter crashed so it's a bit hard to tell :-)

> * Some user interface improvements

Pretty nice on the whole, but I'd suggest a couple of changes (keep in
mind that these are purely my aesthetic reasoning and may not reflect
anyone else's opinion):

1) Get rid of the hyphens following the MacOS and BSD radio button
selections...there's really no need, and I can't think of any similar Mac
application that looks that way.

2) Vertically align the first two text input boxes in the BSD section, the
current misalignment makes the interface look a little cluttered.

> * Handles kernels in Mac OS files much better

I didn't test this, but just wondering, what improvements did you make
here?

> 	If you are able, please grab this and test it so that I can
> release it (with some confidence!) in time for NetBSD/Mac68k 1.3

For the most part, this seemed to work just fine.  One small nit/bug that
I did find tho:  if you happen to specify a SCSI ID number that doesn't
exist (like SCSI ID#0 on my Q700 - the internal is at 3 for some reason I
can't quite fathom, and I forgot to set the ID, so it defaulted to 0), you
get an error like:

Error on SCSIRead#2 (0)

I think.  It appeared that the Booter hung at this point, but it safely
died a couple of seconds later instead.  Although this isn't the worst
behaviour (I mean, I didn't have to reboot ;-)  it might be nicer to get a
little error message like "You're an idiot, please choose a SCSI device
which exists!" or something like that (assuming this is even possible).
It's a shame that everything needs to be bulletproofed this way, but it
does make for a more friendly user experience.

Anyway, thanks for the new version and keep up the great work!!!

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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