From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 29 18:13:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA10733 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 18:13:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA10725 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 18:13:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA20752; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 18:54:44 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199701300154.SAA20752@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: 2.2-BETA Questions To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 18:54:44 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jlemon@americantv.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <11491.854587520@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 29, 97 05:25:20 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Make sure the IDE controller does not support LBA, get a bigger than > > 512M IDE drive anyway, and install the OnTrack 7.x stuff to load > > .. a whole bunch of similar instructions deleted .. > > Why do I get the feeling that Terry is enjoying this? Terry, you > sadist! :-) Because if you personally have to put up with the crap, you're going to gain a whole lot of sympathy for the poor schmucks who bought machines with the crap preinstalled, and now want to unistall a small amount of the crap (namely, whatever MS OS they are replacing with BSD). 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.