From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 5 18:05:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA11155 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 18:05:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA11105 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 18:05:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA10746; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 10:35:13 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA02463; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 10:35:12 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980406103511.29842@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 10:35:11 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Tim Vanderhoek , Josef Grosch Cc: mp@ka.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I HATE FREEBSD (fwd) References: <19980404095122.05523@mooseriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Tim Vanderhoek on Sun, Apr 05, 1998 at 12:32:58AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 5 April 1998 at 0:32:58 -0500, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Josef Grosch wrote: > >>>> to call NEC technical support and they told me to repartion the Hard >>>> Drive. Then I had to run my product recovery cd where it formated the > > Hehe. They [NEC tech support] may just possibly have known > better, too, but after having that attitude shoved at them, I > can't say I blame them if they did. ;-) :-) In fact, I can understand people getting upset after having wiped out their hard disk. The original message was vague enough that it's possible that he really did overwrite the whole disk when trying to install FreeBSD. I wonder if we should put a big warning sign in the booklet that goes with the CD-ROMs. WARNING This software repartitions your hard disk. Use it wrong and you can suffer massive data loss. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message