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To: newton@communica.com.au (Mark Newton)
cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith), hasty@rah.star-gate.com,
        scrappy@hub.org, grog@lemis.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Adding New Hard Drives: A Major Complaint 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Nov 1995 16:12:29 +1030."
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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 09:13:00 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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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?

You have never tried "boot -x" then ?

You're supposed type in your kernel in uuencoded form...

:-)

Yes, I know, ... I actually COULD be usable :-)

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