Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 09:22:58 +0100 (MET) From: sos@FreeBSD.ORG To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: newton@communica.com.au, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, scrappy@hub.org, grog@lemis.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding New Hard Drives: A Major Complaint Message-ID: <199511210822.JAA09206@ra.dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <3331.816941580@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Nov 21, 95 09:13:00 am
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In reply to Poul-Henning Kamp who wrote: > > > <laugh> You can't even get your half-inch tape drive working with FreeBSD. > > Why should we sit back and assume you can get us booting from punch-cards? > > :-) > > > > [ Hey! At least we'd then have a device that we support which Linux doesn't > > <grin> ] > > > > > We still support 80-column ttys, so the heritage link is there. > > > > Ah, but can you *boot* from them? > > You have never tried "boot -x" then ? > > You're supposed type in your kernel in uuencoded form... > > :-) > > Yes, I know, ... I actually COULD be usable :-) > YEAHHH! that way I can use the barcode reader lying here somewhere to boot of all that code that sits on everything !! Ever tried to boot a bottle of coke ?? :) :) :) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team So much code to hack -- so little time.
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