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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: Partitioning (was: ccd with other filesystems)
To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 21:12:36 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans),
	tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert),
	karsten@rohrbach.de (Karsten W. Rohrbach),
	andre@akademie3000.de (Andre Albsmeier),
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In-Reply-To: <20001002105342.A8937@wantadilla.lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Oct 02, 2000 10:53:42 AM
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Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Sunday,  1 October 2000 at 23:59:06 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Greg Lehey wrote:
> >> On Sunday,  1 October 2000 at  2:48:53 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote:
> >> I strongly object to the Microsoft "partition" table, and I don't use
> >> it myself.  And of course you're welcome to use whatever you find
> >> convenient.  It's not until you advocate making this a standard way
> >> that anybody can have any objection.
> >
> > Why?  It is only broken in different ways than the BSD label.
> 
> Because it's another layer of abstraction which doesn't add any
> functionality.  Yes, there are claims that some BIOSes require it, but
> that makes the BIOSes broken.

Is this semi-misattribution to get even with me for not
automatically including attribution, through my use of an older
mail client?

8-).

I think FreeBSD should work on these systems, even if they have
"broken" BIOS'; this is normally done as a virus countermeasure.

PS: Your mail server whines about Primenet being a SPAM source;
that's just strange...


					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.


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