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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!knews.uk0.vbc.net!vbcnet-gb!azure.xara.net!xara.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!europa.clark.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!ais.net!newsfeed.concentric.net!news-master!not-for-mail From: Slater@cris.com (Rick Slater) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Dos filesystem (and HD) trashed by FreeBSD? Date: 28 Mar 1997 10:16:12 GMT Organization: Concentric Internet Services Message-ID: <5hg5pc$3l@chronicle.concentric.net> References: <5h613d$mq8@chronicle.concentric.net> <E7qoEt.89w@nonexistent.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mariner.cris.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Lines: 21 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37896 Louis Epstein (le@put.com) wrote: : Any particular reason you installed 2.1.0 instead of a newer version? : (2.1.0 is what I'm running myself,but any installs I do would be of a : newer version). I happen to have 2.1.0 on a cdrom and am still waiting for 2.2.0 to become available on one. Since I am using 2.1.0 on an older 486 machine, it seemed like an easy way to migrate to the pentium with upgrades coming later. At this point in time, I've come to realize that 2.1.0 can't deal with today's hard drive sizes and configurations, so I'm dropping the idea of reinstalling it. On my last attempt, the mere presence of an extended partition was enough to make the installation kernel barf. I'll either go to 2.2.x or else return to Linux. Regards, Rick Slater