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From: scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Scott Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: boot.flp sucks!!! FreeBSD guys.
Date: 19 Jun 1996 16:24:17 GMT
Organization: Queen Mary & Westfield College, London, UK
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Conrad Sabatier (conrads@neosoft.com) wrote:
: In article <4q08o1$jfn@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com>, aks@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com wrote:
: >I created boot flopy as it is explained on www.freebsd.org. My machine
: >simply hangs!!! Don't tell me that my flopy is busted, or I don't have enough
: >memory. I can't get boot prompt?!. That really sucks. I guess I'll get Caldera
: >Linux.
: Speaking of things that SUCK...
: Providing only "experimental" (read: doesn't fucking work!) support for IDE
: CD-ROMs *really* blows.
In fact it does work quite well for many people, myself included. Instead
of whining about it, how about you actually *contribute* something and
offer to help the developers improve the driver for the next release?
Scott
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