From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 6 03:04:29 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E96D1065675 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 03:04:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kayve@sfsu.edu) Received: from iron3-mailrl.sfsu.edu (iron3-mailrl.sfsu.edu [130.212.10.122]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C7938FC15 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 03:04:28 +0000 (UTC) X-Inbound-SFSU: False X-onepass: IPPSC X-From-SFSU: True X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAFc8ukuC1B9b/2dsb2JhbACbS3GvS4hbgnCCFwSDJIEmgVuFMg Received: from edg04.sfsu.edu ([130.212.31.91]) by iron3.sfsu.edu with ESMTP; 05 Apr 2010 20:04:28 -0700 Received: from EHB03.ad.sfsu.edu (130.212.31.27) by edg04.sfsu.edu (130.212.31.91) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.0.689.0; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 20:01:54 -0700 Received: from smtp01.sfsu.edu (130.212.10.100) by ehb.ad.sfsu.edu (130.212.31.27) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.0.689.0; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 20:04:28 -0700 Received: from libra.sfsu.edu ([130.212.10.238]) by mail05a.sfsu.edu (Lotus Domino Release 7.0.4HF59) with ESMTP id 2010040520042636-32 ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 20:04:26 -0700 Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 20:04:26 -0700 From: KAYVEN RIESE To: Randi Harper In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <4BBA3264.5050702@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on MAIL05a/SERVERS/SFSU(Release 7.0.4HF59 | August 11, 2009) at 04/05/2010 20:04:26, Serialize by Router on SMTP01/SERVERS/SFSU(Release 7.0.4|March 23, 2009) at 04/05/2010 20:04:27, Serialize complete at 04/05/2010 20:04:27 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD anti-competitive activities X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:04:29 -0000 On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Randi Harper wrote: > On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:56 AM, wrote: >> deeptech71@gmail.com wrote: >>> Just as soon as FreeBSD 8.0 came out, I downloaded a boot-only disc . . . . . >>> slicing/partitioning, recovery and backup tools, and also a loadable >>> Mini Windows XP. I hoped I would be able to find out what happened. >>> >>> But guess what? Neither of the Boot CD tools were able to start up, >> [...] >>> sysinstall asked something new when I installed 8.0, something like >>> "It is safe to use a disk geometry of 123/45/6789 on modern >>> computers... Would you like to use this disk geometry?", I chose >>> "Yes". Safe my ass. I guess my computer doesn't fit in sysinstall's >>> definition of "modern". >> >> Reinstalling FreeBSD and chosing "No" seems to have revived the Windows >> partition. > > > I'm not sure why I didn't see the original email in this thread - > maybe I saw the subject and figured it was a troll. > > Seriously? FreeBSD anti-competitive activities? I suggest you wear > your tinfoil hat, because they are all out to get you. > > It's a problem with sysinstall & libdisk. File a bug. That's generally > how problems are handled, not by claiming there's some sort of > anti-windows conspiracy. How does it go? Attribute to incompetence, not malice? I forget. Don't really mean to call you FreeBSD guys incompetent. Maybe just a little 300 Spartans fighting off a million Persians. Somebody made a boo boo-- oh wait.. was it the guy trying to use sysinstall and not the folks who wrote it? Either way.. > > -- randi > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > *----------------------------------------------------------* Kayven Riese, BSCS, MS (Physiology and Biophysics) (415) 902 5513 cellular http://kayve.net Webmaster http://ChessYoga.org *----------------------------------------------------------*