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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: userconfig doesn't work on tvi925 
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Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 10:40:30 -0700
From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>
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  I don't call a newbie booting the kernel on non-conforming hardware an
  "emergency". 

I would certainly consider an utter newbie booting a kernel on a machine
that doesn't have the FDC in the right location to be an "exception"...

Wouldn't you?