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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.mtu.edu!msunews!gvsu!river.it.gvsu.edu!behrensm From: behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu (Matt Behrens) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Sharing swap between FreeBSD and Linux, not enough partitions Date: 6 Jun 1997 12:44:37 GMT Organization: Grand Valley State University Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5n90nl$909@news.gvsu.edu> References: <3392ED3D.E47@appliedreasoning.com> <5n7bdm$osi@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: river.it.gvsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42516 J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: [snip! about partitions and slices] : Too bad, some BIOS vendors try to be `smart' these days, and : don't boot a disk if they believe its master boot record contains an : invalid fdisk table. :-((( HP's PCs are among this, even their more : serious Netservers now. They should be shot for this braindamage. : (It won't help a winluser with a broken disk very much, either.) Hell, HP PC's don't even run Windows very well. Vectras especially. They're about as full of chaff as HP printer drivers are nowadays (I remember scrambling at work to find some alternatives because the dancing inkdrop was crashing several machines there.) Stupid, stupid, stupid. -- Matt Behrens Zigg Computer Services zigg@iserv.net http://www.iserv.net/~zigg/