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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: X for install 
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Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 09:13:14 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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> That's how it *should* work, and as far as I can see, much of the
> "magic" comes from a little utility named `NTDETECT' - It apparently

NTDETECT runs in real mode and probes the HW.

> when probed is a black art.  Any black magicians out there interested
> in starting a `FreeBSD Detect 1.0' project? :-)

We should do this.

This is the only way we can hope to solve the bios-geometry problem 
for instance.

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Poul-Henning Kamp           | phk@FreeBSD.ORG       FreeBSD Core-team.
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Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.