Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 16:12:29 +1030 (CST) From: newton@communica.com.au (Mark Newton) To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, scrappy@hub.org, grog@lemis.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding New Hard Drives: A Major Complaint Message-ID: <9511210542.AA14290@communica.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199511210452.EAA21782@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Nov 21, 95 04:52:53 am
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Michael Smith wrote:
> Amancio Hasty Jr. stands accused of saying:
> > fdisk/disklabel Pretty lame if you ask me -- perhaps we should required
> > FreeBSD to be booted by IBM Punch Cards....
>
> I can do that, if I can find the guy around here with the card hardware.
<laugh> You can't even get your half-inch tape drive working with FreeBSD.
Why should we sit back and assume you can get us booting from punch-cards?
:-)
[ Hey! At least we'd then have a device that we support which Linux doesn't
<grin> ]
> We still support 80-column ttys, so the heritage link is there.
Ah, but can you *boot* from them?
[ I prefer front-panel toggle switches myself... ]
- mark
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