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. -- 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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