From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 7 11:59:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from inconnu.isu.edu (inconnu.isu.edu [134.50.8.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6066737B423 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 11:59:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (galt@localhost) by inconnu.isu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA03973; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 12:59:11 -0600 Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 12:59:11 -0600 (MDT) From: John Galt To: Salvo Bartolotta Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intalling WindowsNT,FreeBsd 3.4,FreeBsd 4.1 In-Reply-To: <20000907.19551500@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org That's okay, I flunked latin anyway :) On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Salvo Bartolotta wrote: > [ Redirected to -chat ] > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > On 9/7/00, 6:45:00 PM, John Galt wrote regarding > Re: Intalling WindowsNT,FreeBsd 3.4,FreeBsd 4.1: > > > > The 3.4 bootloader doesn't like start cylinders greater than 1024. My > 3.X > > solution was to put "stub installs" within the first 100M and then > mount > > stuff like swap, var, usr, _ad nauseum_in the >1024 cyl area. Even > though > ^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > > Dear John Galt, > > I am afraid your Latin is not correct; your quotation should read "ad > nauseam". > > On a related note, this specific mistake is rather frequent. > > More significantly, it seems that, whenever you are quoting from Latin > in a [more or less] serious or even emphatic context, the probability > of making such a mistake/typo/error increases :-)) > > Best regards, > Salvo > > > -- Sacred cows make the best burgers Who is John Galt? galt@inconnu.isu.edu, that's who!!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message