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From: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD v Linux (again! ;)
Date: 17 Jun 1996 09:18:36 GMT
Organization: CICDO
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Message-ID: <4q37td$s59@baygull.rtd.com>
References: <31BD1390.54AB@bekkers.com.au> <4q0umm$l6l@baygull.rtd.com> <4q1kcp$1mc@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> <4q29eq$33k_002@news.livenet.net>
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In article <4q29eq$33k_002@news.livenet.net>,
Jim Sloan <jsloan@LiveNet.Net> wrote:
>In article <4q1kcp$1mc@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com>, aks@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com wrote:
>>: Gee, for those of us who have been using it for *years*, I guess
>>: we'd have to say this sounds like a personal problem!  Have you
>>: seen a physician about it??   :>
>>
>>If you are such a smart ass, tell why the boot floppy causes my machine to
>> hang. I even don't get boot prompt. I run SCO UNIX, Interactive and Linux on
>> my
>>machine, however FreeBSD does not boot up.
>
>your attitude sucks, when all needed was a simple question, you slammed 
>FreeBSD without giving a chance for someone to help with the problem, but then 
>again, I guess, some people want everything done for them instead of RTFM.  
>You have conflicts, simple, at the boot: prompt, type -c at the next prompt, 
>type visual, configure the kernel to remove conflicts, boot and install. REAL 
>simple, but I guess someone with your attitude requires flaming of something 
>you don't take time to research.

Aww, shucks!  Now you went and spoiled it!  I was hoping this bozo would
go bother some *other* camp with his whining... (sigh)  :>