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To: Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au>
cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>,
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Subject: Re: 'fatal trap 12' on boot (smp and up) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 28 Jun 1998 10:04:35 +0930."
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Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 17:42:22 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Somewhere it will have to be documented that Windows 98 users
> will have to make the FreeBSD boot floppy and boot from that
> to install.

It's documented all over the place that this is how Win* people should
install the system - the whole fbsdboot.exe thing was provided just as
a clever trick for making it even easier in some circumstances and
it's always been plugged as a last resort, especially since it
interacts so poorly with extended memory managers and always has.

- Jordan

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