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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Kernel config problem
Date: 25 Mar 1997 16:16:31 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5h8jpr$qq1@chronicle.concentric.net>,
	Slater@cris.com (Rick Slater) writes:
> 
> Brian Somers (brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org) wrote:
>  
>: Sounds like the ps/2 problem again - your machine has a ps/2
>: mouse I'll bet.  You may be able to fix your problems by
> 
> Yes, you are right.  I'll make it a point to check out the
> "ps/2 problem" as you suggest.  I'm also going to wait until
> version 2.2 is available, because it appears that 2.1.0 doesn't
> handle large (4 Gig) hard drives properly.  I had two 2 Gig
> partitions (one win 95, and one FreeBSD) until FreeBSD attempted
> to write to the Win 95 partition.  After that attempt, the HD
> was corrupted and it was necessary to reinstall everything.

Yep :(  Keep 'em smaller than 1028Mb.

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !