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From: James Mansion <james@westongold.com>
To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc: sporkl@ix.netcom.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: RE: SparQ Drive and 3.0 upgrade 
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 08:51:30 -0000 
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Out of interest, is there a 'recommended' high-capacity
removable device that can be used to boot different OSs on
a single PC?

Jazz???

James


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom [mailto:tom@uniserve.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 09, 1998 1:17 AM
> To: Mike Smith
> Cc: sporkl@ix.netcom.com; freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: SparQ Drive and 3.0 upgrade 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > 	I recently got a SparQ EIDE 1.0GB drive, and my 2.2.7-STABLE
> > > system doesn't detect it. I downloaded the 3.0 boot 
> floppy and booting
> > > that it got detected. If I upgrade to 3.0-RELEASE right 
> now, on my PII
> > > w/an AHA-2940UW, AGP video card, etc., will I completely 
> regret it? What
> > > is the cvsup tag for 3.0? Thanks. 
> > 
> > 3.0-RELEASE has the same format release tag as all the 
> other releases.  
> > You'd be better off supping straight to -current though.
> > 
> > What you'll regret most however is buying one of those 
> disgusting Sparq 
> > drives.  
> 
>   Especially now that SyQuest has just gone out of business.
> 
> > -- 
> > \\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
> > \\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
> > \\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
> > \\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
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