Re: FreeBSD anti-competitive activities

2010-04-05 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Programmer In Training wrote: On 04/05/10 22:04, KAYVEN RIESE wrote: I say neither malice nor incompetence. Despite my own n00bish problems, I think I remember now.. "Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." Somebody here knows that sa

Re: FreeBSD anti-competitive activities

2010-04-05 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Programmer In Training wrote: On 04/05/10 22:04, KAYVEN RIESE wrote: I say neither malice nor incompetence. Despite my own n00bish problems, I was only attempting to quote a saying. The saying talks about incompetence. Somebody made a boo boo there is no conspiracy.

Re: FreeBSD anti-competitive activities

2010-04-05 Thread Programmer In Training
On 04/05/10 22:04, KAYVEN RIESE wrote: > boo boo-- oh wait.. was it the guy trying to use sysinstall and not the > folks who wrote it? Either way.. I don't know. I had problems with booting without the boot manager (it wouldn't) and I followed the directions step by step as they were wrote in th

Re: FreeBSD anti-competitive activities

2010-04-05 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Randi Harper wrote: On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:56 AM, wrote: deeptec...@gmail.com wrote: Just as soon as FreeBSD 8.0 came out, I downloaded a boot-only disc .... . slicing/partitioning, recovery and backup tools, and also a loadable Mini Windows XP. I h

Re: FreeBSD anti-competitive activities

2010-04-05 Thread deeptech71
Randi Harper wrote: Seriously? FreeBSD anti-competitive activities? I suggest you wear your tinfoil hat, because they are all out to get you. It's a problem with sysinstall& libdisk. File a bug. That's generally how problems are handled, not by claiming there's some sort of anti-windows conspir

Re: FreeBSD anti-competitive activities

2010-04-05 Thread Randi Harper
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:56 AM, wrote: > deeptec...@gmail.com wrote: >> Just as soon as FreeBSD 8.0 came out, I downloaded a boot-only disc >> image and went off to reinstall FreeBSD (don't ask why). OK, it worked >> whatsoever. But as it turns out, I wasn't able to boot my Windows XP >> install

Re: FreeBSD anti-competitive activities

2010-04-05 Thread deeptech71
deeptec...@gmail.com wrote: > Just as soon as FreeBSD 8.0 came out, I downloaded a boot-only disc > image and went off to reinstall FreeBSD (don't ask why). OK, it worked > whatsoever. But as it turns out, I wasn't able to boot my Windows XP > installation anymore. The system just froze when I tri