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Date:      Wed, 8 Dec 2010 10:13:05 +0000
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        Andy Farkas <chuzzwassa@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD
Message-ID:  <20101208101305.0b592721@core.draftnet>
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On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 20:01:32 +1000
Andy Farkas <chuzzwassa@gmail.com> wrote:

> Why is this so?

I think the Fixit environment only contains tools necessary for
installing the system and has traditionally needed to be small enough
to fit on a 1.44MB floppy disk. So since "ls" wasn't required it
wasn't included.

-- 
Bruce Cran



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