On 20-Nov-00 Greg Lehey wrote:
>  OK, the more this thread continues, the more it's looking as if we're
>  talking about different things.  I don't have (much) of an objection
>  to removing it from sysinstall.  If that's all we're talking about, I
>  don't have any further objections.  But I still want to have the
>  facility in the system.

I would prefer it died, but I'm not doing the work ;)

>  I wonder how long the current Microsoft partition table has to live,
>  anyway?  Sooner or later people are going to have to move to LBA
>  addressing, or disks will get so big that the partition table can't
>  address them.  Then, hopefully, we'll be able to use a more sane
>  layout.

Hah! You have too much faith in PC designers. It will be another hack of course.

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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