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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!news.thenet.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!165.254.2.53!nonexistent.com!not-for-mail From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) Subject: Re: Dos filesystem (and HD) trashed by FreeBSD? X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] X-Nntp-Posting-User: le Lines: 30 Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <E7w3Lz.18x@nonexistent.com> References: <5h613d$mq8@chronicle.concentric.net> <E7qoEt.89w@nonexistent.com> <5hg5pc$3l@chronicle.concentric.net> X-Trace: 859781446/27668 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: main.put.com Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 04:10:47 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38114 Rick Slater (Slater@cris.com) wrote: : : 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. (I have a hunch that the next CDROM will be 2.2.1,since that's replaced 2.2.0 for FTP!) (I've subscribed to the CDROMs and have 2.1.7). : 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. Hmm,so it's a matter of OS-sharing? : I'll either go to 2.2.x or else return to Linux. Well,the CDROM will be out soon,I guess,but I'm not sure how specific to your complaints the improvements are.