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From: wpaul@panix.com (Bill Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: I'm going to SHOOT SOMEONE!
Date: 13 Jul 1994 14:04:02 -0400
Organization: The M00se Illuminati (bl00p!)
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Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Jeff Aitken
(jaitken@csugrad.cs.vt.edu) had the courage to say:
[Tale of mis-wired floppy drives munched for brevity]
: sort of... FreeBSD does not come with /dev/rwd1* on the filesyst
: floppy, so I cannot install it onto drive D:, which is frustrating,
: but after I go blow up the factory where the PC was assembled, I'll
: feel better.
: Just a suggestion to people who experience weird problems - double check
: everything you did not do! Chances are it was done wrong. (Am I the
: only idiot who forgot this? ;)
No, you're one of the many idiots who assumed that his system wasn't
broken because MS-DOG didn't complain about the floppies being connected
wrong. The fact that DOS blindly ignores serious hardware problems
isn't a feature, people: it's a bug. :)
: Seriously, does anyone know how I can install onto drive wd1 without the
: necessary files in /dev? MAKEDEV fails because mknod, chown, and chgrp
: are not present - why was this done this way?
: Jeff
C'mon, this was reported and fixed in 1.1.5.1 already! Catch up man,
catch up! Don't you read the other articles in this group? Get the
filesyst.flp image from the 1.1.5.1-RELEASE directory and use that.
Should work like a charm.
-Bill
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