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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!ceylon!wizard.pn.com!bhhome.bh.org!bill From: bill@bhhome.bh.org (Bill Heiser) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0a install: Yuck! Date: 19 Nov 1994 22:29:59 GMT Organization: Bill Heiser's Organization Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3alu97$m4l@wizard.pn.com> References: <3adv8i$dqh@germany.eu.net> <1994Nov18.145543.4995@cm.cf.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: bhhome.bh.org X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Paul Richards (paul@isl.cf.ac.uk) wrote: : The ALPHA version was nowhere near complete and when it comes to the fdisk : and disklabel parts of the process you have to know what you're doing. You're : lucky you didn't completely hose yourself, that's what APLHA software can : do sometimes, that's why it's ALPHA. Yup. I can attest to that. When I first booted the 2.0 boot floppy, I thought I was just READING the readme files, but with a stroke of the return key I wiped out my existing system :-| But Jordan mentioned a day or so later that he'd added another prompt prior to starting the disk work :-) Aside from that little glitch, I haven't noticed anything about 2.0 that would make me think it's an ALPHA release as opposed to a "real" release! -bill -- Bill Heiser: bill@bh.org http://www.bh.org/ PGP public key available upon request.