Date: Sat, 03 Jun 1995 16:26:48 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> 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 Message-ID: <12745.802222008@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Jun 95 11:17:58 EDT." <m0sHuxa-00019mC@bagend.atl.ga.us>
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> 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
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