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Date:      Wed, 03 Jan 1996 09:13:14 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hacker's list)
Subject:   Re: X for install 
Message-ID:  <509.820656794@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Jan 1996 17:42:54 PST." <1164.820633374@time.cdrom.com> 

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> That's how it *should* work, and as far as I can see, much of the
> "magic" comes from a little utility named `NTDETECT' - It apparently

NTDETECT runs in real mode and probes the HW.

> when probed is a black art.  Any black magicians out there interested
> in starting a `FreeBSD Detect 1.0' project? :-)

We should do this.

This is the only way we can hope to solve the bios-geometry problem 
for instance.

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Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.



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