Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 09:13:00 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: newton@communica.com.au (Mark Newton) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith), hasty@rah.star-gate.com, scrappy@hub.org, grog@lemis.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding New Hard Drives: A Major Complaint Message-ID: <3331.816941580@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Nov 1995 16:12:29 %2B1030." <9511210542.AA14290@communica.com.au>
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> Michael Smith wrote: > > > Amancio Hasty Jr. stands accused of saying: > > > fdisk/disklabel Pretty lame if you ask me -- perhaps we should required > > > FreeBSD to be booted by IBM Punch Cards.... > > > > I can do that, if I can find the guy around here with the card hardware. > > <laugh> You can't even get your half-inch tape drive working with FreeBSD. > Why should we sit back and assume you can get us booting from punch-cards? > :-) > > [ Hey! At least we'd then have a device that we support which Linux doesn't > <grin> ] > > > We still support 80-column ttys, so the heritage link is there. > > Ah, but can you *boot* from them? You have never tried "boot -x" then ? You're supposed type in your kernel in uuencoded form... :-) Yes, I know, ... I actually COULD be usable :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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