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From: lepslog@j51.com (Louis Epstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: DNS, FTP & Mail - for ISP
Date: 15 Oct 1995 16:21:41 GMT
Organization: TZ-Link, a public-access online community in Nyack, NY.
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Christopher Sean Hilton (chris@vindaloo.com) wrote:
: In article <45eq7b$5g6@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
: >Christopher Sean Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com> wrote:
: >>... There is nothing preventing the driver in
: >>FreeBSD or Linux from addressing all of a 2048 GB drive however
: >>getting a partition table on it may be problematic.
: >
: >You don't really need one. :-)

: If you only want to run FreeBSD as would any sane and normal person.
: There are however some people out there who may want to run MS-DOS
: for the occasional game of Doom.

And how about partitions over 2048MB?
Not supported here either?