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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD support [was Re: God Damn partition crap!]
Date: 6 Apr 1996 04:54:33 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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mcgraw@cais.cais.com (Michael Curry) wrote:
]
] : The main problem is that it isn't a single command called
] : "add_disk". To get to that level of automation requires
] : resolving some fundamental issues tightly bound to things
] : like BIOS geometry and DOS partition table C/H/S fields.
]
] I do not recall the term "automation" being used.
I claim that anything less is a half-assed stop-gap soloution
and, frankly, isn't worth my time to work on.
If you feel it's worth your time, then fine. I have already
offered many megabytes of process documentation and related
materials to enable you to do so.
If you feel its not worth your time, but it is worth someone
elses time, then feel free to convince them... but you have
failed to convince me. I already know what the correct
soloution will look like.
Regards,
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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or previous employers.