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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 03:51:10 -0800
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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Subject: Re: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 (fwd)
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Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:09:34AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:20:53AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > > Yet... my DEC labelled Alpha box has a floppy drive, but doesn't
> > > have a CDROM drive, unless I hook my own to the SCSI connector...
> >
> > When was the last time you booted that box?  When was the last time you
> > installed FreeBSD on that box?
> 
> Lemme guess... Multia?

Yes, Multia.

I guess the answer to this problem can be the same as the answer to
several other recent problems, and you can declare the hardware
unsupported... not my first choice, of course.

-- Terry

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