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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New Install / Observations & Gripes Date: 12 Jan 1996 22:33:49 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4d6nkd$h7c@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <DKup49.M1t@bnr.ca> <4cqk44$3gt@agate.berkeley.edu> <4cqogd$97e@blob.best.net> <4crefn$dtk@agate.berkeley.edu> <4cufsj$blh@blob.best.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 dillon@best.com (Matt Dillon) writes: > DOS wasn't actually on the disk, but I had been trying to use > the default DOS-compatible partitioning from sysinstall and it was > failing miserably (it was, after all, the default recommendation :-)). It's the default recommendation since 95 % of the people are requesting the DOS (or Linux) compatibility anyway, and another substantial part of them would seriously risk damaging their existing data if we made the (more unix-like) everything-is-owned-by-FreeBSD variant the default one. People like you however are the group the non-DOS-compatible ``dangerously dedicated'' option is targetted to. I do also love it, but hey, i've been implementing it. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)