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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD support [was Re: God Damn partition crap!]
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 21:27:17 -0700
Organization: Me
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Michael Curry wrote:
] Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote:
] : mcgraw@cais.cais.com (Michael Curry) wrote:
] : ] : If you feel it's worth your time, then fine. I have already
] : ] : offered many megabytes of process documentation and related
] : ] : materials to enable you to do so.
] : ]
] : ] It *may* be worth my time, but then, I do not believe that
] : ] many megabytes of process documentation would be necessary
] : ] to make some fairly trivial additions to the existing
] : ] documentation, which might help inexperienced people
] : ] during installation and setup.
] :
] : The doc is online already. A real fix is not.
]
] I see that your name figures prominently in the FAQs. Hence
] your annoyance at the suggestion that some things might be
] better explained?
Since that is a question mark, I will pretend it is not rhetorical.
My name figures heavily in the FAQ's because I wrote the
"386BSD Unofficial FAQ", and Dave Burgess has contunied
crediting me long after my work ceased being relevant to
anything but structure (if there).
It may also figure heavily because I put out the first two
releases of the "386BSD 0.1 patchkit".
In point of fact, I was referring to the section in the
handbook (which I haven't written for, unless something
I've posted has been included) documenting "How to add
a disk".
The Handbook is on the CDROM, it's in the "doc" sources
if you do a full install, and it's online at www.freebsd.org.
Unless you are one of those anal weenies who believes
documentation does not exist unless its (a) perfect bound
and accompanies the CDROM (the handbook now is and does, by
the way) OR (b) posted to a newsgroup (forget all other
locations it could be posted, I guess...).
] Whatever -- your proprietary interests will not be violated;
] I have other things to do.
Fine; so do I... like working on a real fix: one that
doesn't require me educating you (because you refuse to
look where I point) in order for you to add a disk.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.