Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 20:04:26 -0700 From: KAYVEN RIESE <kayve@sfsu.edu> To: Randi Harper <randi@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD anti-competitive activities Message-ID: <Pine.SOC.4.64.1004052001120.3198@libra.sfsu.edu> In-Reply-To: <s2ge277d6c81004051102w49907026na4dfb8f37822b1de@mail.gmail.com> References: <4BBA3264.5050702@gmail.com> <s2ge277d6c81004051102w49907026na4dfb8f37822b1de@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Randi Harper wrote: > On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:56 AM, <deeptech71@gmail.com> wrote: >> deeptech71@gmail.com wrote: >>> Just as soon as FreeBSD 8.0 came out, I downloaded a boot-only disc . . . . . >>> slicing/partitioning, recovery and backup tools, and also a loadable >>> Mini Windows XP. I hoped I would be able to find out what happened. >>> >>> But guess what? Neither of the Boot CD tools were able to start up, >> [...] >>> sysinstall asked something new when I installed 8.0, something like >>> "It is safe to use a disk geometry of 123/45/6789 on modern >>> computers... Would you like to use this disk geometry?", I chose >>> "Yes". Safe my ass. I guess my computer doesn't fit in sysinstall's >>> definition of "modern". >> >> Reinstalling FreeBSD and chosing "No" seems to have revived the Windows >> partition. > > > I'm not sure why I didn't see the original email in this thread - > maybe I saw the subject and figured it was a troll. > > Seriously? FreeBSD anti-competitive activities? I suggest you wear > your tinfoil hat, because they are all out to get you. > > It's a problem with sysinstall & libdisk. File a bug. That's generally > how problems are handled, not by claiming there's some sort of > anti-windows conspiracy. How does it go? Attribute to incompetence, not malice? I forget. Don't really mean to call you FreeBSD guys incompetent. Maybe just a little 300 Spartans fighting off a million Persians. Somebody made a boo boo-- oh wait.. was it the guy trying to use sysinstall and not the folks who wrote it? Either way.. > > -- randi > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > *----------------------------------------------------------* Kayven Riese, BSCS, MS (Physiology and Biophysics) (415) 902 5513 cellular http://kayve.net Webmaster http://ChessYoga.org *----------------------------------------------------------*
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