Re: FreeBSD anti-competitive activities

2010-04-18 Thread Tony Theodore
On 19 April 2010 02:38, KAYVEN RIESE wrote: > On Sat, 17 Apr 2010, Tony Theodore wrote: > >> On 17 April 2010 02:05,   wrote: >>> >>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=misc/145735 >>> Something sure stinks here... >> >> I find most installers these days are overly opinionated, gparted (an

Re: FreeBSD anti-competitive activities

2010-04-18 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010, Tony Theodore wrote: On 17 April 2010 02:05, wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=misc/145735 Something sure stinks here... I find most installers these days are overly opinionated, gparted (and sometimes OSX Disk Utility) are the safest bets - or just give

RE: FreeBSD anti-competitive activities

2010-04-17 Thread Rick N
t; Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 03:58:58 +1000 > From: to...@logyst.com > To: deeptec...@gmail.com > CC: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: FreeBSD anti-competitive activities > > On 17 April 2010 02:05, wrote: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=misc/14573

Re: FreeBSD anti-competitive activities

2010-04-16 Thread Tony Theodore
On 17 April 2010 02:05, wrote: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=misc/145735 > Something sure stinks here... I find most installers these days are overly opinionated, gparted (and sometimes OSX Disk Utility) are the safest bets - or just give away multi-booting and simply run virtual

Re: FreeBSD anti-competitive activities

2010-04-16 Thread deeptech71
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=misc/145735 Something sure stinks here... ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

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

Re: FreeBSD anti-competitive activities

2010-01-14 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Roger wrote: I don't know about Windows XP but Windows 7 has an option to repair the MBR (don't quote me on the term) which will screw FreeBSD boot manager but after you re-install the FreeBSD manager again (after running the Windows 7 repair) everything will be fine. UN

Re: FreeBSD anti-competitive activities

2010-01-14 Thread Martin Tournoij
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:05:37AM -0500, Roger wrote: > I don't know about Windows XP but Windows 7 has an option to repair > the MBR (don't quote me on the term) which will screw FreeBSD boot > manager but after you re-install the FreeBSD manager again (after > running the Windows 7 repair) every

Re: FreeBSD anti-competitive activities

2010-01-13 Thread Roger
I don't know about Windows XP but Windows 7 has an option to repair the MBR (don't quote me on the term) which will screw FreeBSD boot manager but after you re-install the FreeBSD manager again (after running the Windows 7 repair) everything will be fine. -r ___