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From: chris@vindaloo.com (Christopher Sean Hilton)
Subject: Re: DNS, FTP & Mail - for ISP
Organization: Vindaloo communications
Message-ID: <1995Oct20.024418.5786@vindaloo.com>
References: <44mmsd$1lda@news.gate.net> <45eq7b$5g6@uriah.heep.sax.de> <1995Oct13.233040.15450@vindaloo.com> <45rcel$9ts@tzlink.j51.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 95 02:44:18 GMT
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In article <45rcel$9ts@tzlink.j51.com>, Louis Epstein <lepslog@j51.com> wrote:
>Christopher Sean Hilton (chris@vindaloo.com) wrote:
>: In article <45eq7b$5g6@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
>: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>: >Christopher Sean Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com> wrote:
>: >>... There is nothing preventing the driver in
>: >>FreeBSD or Linux from addressing all of a 2048 GB drive however
>: >>getting a partition table on it may be problematic.
>: >
>: >You don't really need one. :-)
>
>: If you only want to run FreeBSD as would any sane and normal person.
>: There are however some people out there who may want to run MS-DOS
>: for the occasional game of Doom.
>
>And how about partitions over 2048MB?
>Not supported here either?
>

You may want to re-read the original post. We said 2048
Gigabytes or 2 Terabytes.

Chris
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