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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dos filesystem (and HD) trashed by FreeBSD?
Date: 1 Apr 1997 09:04:41 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <E7w3Lz.18x@nonexistent.com>,
^^^^^^^^^^^ This spam avoidance thing is going too far
le@put.com (Louis Epstein) writes:
> Rick Slater (Slater@cris.com) wrote:
[.....]
>: 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.
2.2.[01] still has the MSDOSFS problems, but VFATFS hasn't been
forgotten.... no estimated end date yet though.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !