Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 14:17:20 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Lee Crites (AEI)" <leec@adam.adonai.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Error installing pine-3.96 Message-ID: <12424.859846640@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 31 Mar 1997 11:59:05 CST." <Pine.BSF.3.95.970331111950.27679C-100000@adam.adonai.net>
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> I have two decades of computer experience. I've done just about > everything once (and some things I don't want to admit to more than once > -- anyone need a cobol programmer anymore?) Lots of people, actually - cobol programmers are going to make a fortune these next few months in turning all those "PIC(2) YEAR" statements into "PIC(4) YEAR" for the Y2000 problem. :-) > We already take into consideration the possibility of a person having a > pc with multiple os's on it. Why can't we consider the option of having > one pc with multiple versions of fbsd on it? One of the excuses for not It's too hard? :-) For one thing, you can't give it its own partition since only the first 0xA5 type partition is booted from and I can't really imagine how you'd make multiple versions co-exist in a single partition. If our upgrade supported proper versioning, it might be easy enough to go *backwards* if you didn't like an upgrade and wanted to undo it, but I can't see anything fancier than that working out. Jordan
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