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Subject: Re: Can't boot a new 2.0.5A system 
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On Thu, 1 Jun 1995, Julian Elischer wrote:

>>  When in doubt freebsd looks to see what DOS did, so it you have a
>> DOS partition, it'll use those geometry figures..


On Fri, 2 Jun 1995 16:44:13 +0800 (CST), Brian Tao
<taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> said:

Brian>     Whatever it is that DOS does, can it be moved to FreeBSD?

Ditto. Some us aren't so (un)fortunate as to have DOS lying around :-)
Why should I buy it when I'm not gonna run it -- just to format? Ick.

Thanks.