Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 00:55:51 +0000 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question Message-ID: <199808280055.AAA02289@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Aug 1998 17:18:34 %2B0930." <XFMail.980828171834.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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> > On 28-Aug-98 Mike Smith wrote: > > > OK.. hmm.. does the new stuff boot intel boxes yet? :) > > a.out kernels from floppy only. The only stumbling block with other > > disks is the biosdisk : major/minor numbering mapping. Getting it > > "right" on old systems is still impossible, and getting it "right" on > > new (EDD 3) systems leads to some new and even more subtle quirks. 8( > May you defeat the Evil Empire(tm) in your quest for a better OS.. =) I wish. We are left stumbling in their wake, grubbing through the scraps of documentation they let fall like wrinkled candy wrappers among the trash, trying to infer their algorithms from the cryptic scribblings thereon. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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