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From: iiitac@uk.ac.swan.pyr (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: Taylor UUCP on FreeBSD???
Message-ID: <1994Jun22.095452.4237@uk.ac.swan.pyr>
Organization: Swansea University College
References: <2u73ti$egn@glitnir.ifi.uio.no> <RSANDERS.94Jun21155032@hrothgar.mindspring.com> <2u7tcb$6mr@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 09:54:52 GMT
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In article <2u7tcb$6mr@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
>As a FreeBSD developer, I'll give a quick WHY we did it that way.

This is quite interesting and I'm curious to know why you didn't link everything
dynamically and have a floppy disk for rescue work. The disk is really needed
anyway in case you manage a stunt like destroying the partition table or
corrupting a superblock (granted not a common occurence).

Alan