[rescue] It Figures...

[Jay West]

I don't know how you are attempting to install FreeBSD, but I have been
using it since 2.0 up to the current day. At any given time I have FreeBSD
on about 25 to 30 servers here. I can assure you, I have never had to create
an MS-DOS partition first, even with regards to the filename length you
mention. Care to clarify?

Jay West
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Adkins" <george at webbastard.org>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 7:26 PM
Subject: [rescue] It Figures...


> Guess what..
>
> In spite of requests to the contrary, the 'Worthless Bastards(c)' over at
> FreeBSD have left the installer "Broken Again" as they have since 4.3.
>
> Yet again, you cannot install to the disk without creating an MS-Dos
> partition space at the beginning of the disk, and suffering through the
> idiotic misery of nine-mile-long device names.
>
> Okay, perhaps not nine miles long, but I grow progressively more tired of
> having to hack each progressive release in order to get rid of the Stupid
> L**** style dos-compatibility partitioning scheme so that I can get back
to a
> good old 'sd0[a-h]' style slice names.
>
> If I wanted some dumbass 'fake disk slice pointing to an MS-DOS extended
> partition table entry' I'd just install Dead-Rat or Plebian.
>
> </rant>
>
> I think I'm just going to give up of FreeBSD and put up with NetBSD on
Intel.
>
> George
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