From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Sep 28 19: 5:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from darius.concentric.net (darius.concentric.net [207.155.198.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF7761579E for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 19:05:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mlduke@concentric.net) Received: from mcfeely.concentric.net (mcfeely.concentric.net [207.155.198.83]) by darius.concentric.net (8.9.1a/(98/12/15 5.12)) id WAA21287; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:05:08 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from ts001d42.mer-id.concentric.net (ts001d42.mer-id.concentric.net [206.173.184.54]) by mcfeely.concentric.net (8.9.1a) id WAA06673; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:05:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 19:03:51 -0600 (MDT) From: mlduke To: Bob Cohen Cc: Free-BSD Newbies Mailing List Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Y2k In-Reply-To: <000001bf0a0a$74c76ac0$dfdfdfdf@mojomatic> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Bob Cohen wrote: > I've got 3.3 in my hot little hands and am wondering whether > I need to deal with the fact that my bios is not y2k > compliant? My Unix Mentor tells me FBSD doesn't care about the bios. But I wouldn't take that as an absolute. As a precaution, if you put a dos partition on the drive, go to RightTime.com, their free (non-commercial, private only) fix will most likely solve the bios thing. Duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message