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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 16:21:07 -0800
From: "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com>
To: "Thyer, Matthew" <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au>
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Subject: Re: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 (fwd)
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On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 10:34:05AM +1030, Thyer, Matthew wrote:
> I'd hope we can split the Alpha boot floppies even further to get around these kind of problems.
... 
> I'm not advocating this just to fix the Alpha problem... it would be a
> good move for any platform and would allow third parties to provide
> modules that could be used at install time.

Where's the patch???

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