From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 3 16:27:09 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA12780 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 16:27:09 -0700 Received: from cssun.mathcs.emory.edu (cssun.mathcs.emory.edu [128.140.2.212]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA12774 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 16:27:08 -0700 Received: from emory.mathcs.emory.edu (emory.mathcs.emory.edu [128.140.2.1]) by cssun.mathcs.emory.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9-940818.01cssun) with SMTP id TAA20490 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 19:26:55 -0400 Received: from agate.Berkeley.EDU by emory.mathcs.emory.edu (5.65/Emory_mathcs.4.0.14) via SMTP id AA28990 ; Sat, 3 Jun 95 19:26:52 -0400 Received: from nak.berkeley.edu by agate.berkeley.edu (8.6.10/1.33) id QAA07861; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 16:26:50 -0700 Received: from freefall.cdrom.com by nak.berkeley.edu (8.6.10/1.40) id QAA17996; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 16:26:49 -0700 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA12746 ; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 16:26:48 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) Cc: emory!freebsd.org!freebsd-hackers@emory.mathcs.emory.edu (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: alpha floppy request In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Jun 95 11:17:58 EDT." Date: Sat, 03 Jun 1995 16:26:48 -0700 Message-Id: <12745.802222008@freefall.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > ack, I just fetched from ALPHA last night and this morning the > README has not changed but the *.flp seems to. Can they be > indexed/numbered/whatever someway so that when we know which > one we are using and Jordon knows which one we are commenting > on? Sorry, they're generally in-sync but last night I was just trying to get to bed and copied the latest floppies up before falling over.. :-) > Actually, I found this version of fdisk and disklabel more > confusing than the old ones. Maybe this is simply because > there is not yet a doc about it to read before using. This This would help, yes. I'm working on the docs today. > was especially problematic in that I do not know what the > various codes mean in disklabel. For instance, when I ask > it to mount an existing dos partition there is no feedback > about what the meaning of the label in the newfs collumn. > This is very unnerving to someone who does not have a working > tape drive right now. :-) I understand. I will work on that! > Just to throw a monkey into the works... I know everyone > wanted to cut a 2.0.5 cd last month ... but ... 3.1.2 is > due from XFree86 in a couple of weeks with lots of new > FreeBSD support expected therein, like *my* video card. :) Well, that can be for 2.1. Jordan