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Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail



On Fri 23 Jan 2015 at 14:24:45 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Friday 23 January 2015 13:46:04 Lisi Reisz did opine
> And Gene did reply:
> > On Friday 23 January 2015 12:42:15 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Not really, I have only been doing it since 1985 or 6. :)
> > > > 
> > > > No doubt long experienced drivers of horse drawn carriages thought
> > > > that they were well qualified to drive an Alfa Romeo 6C at full
> > > > speeed.
> > > > 
> > > > Lisi
> > > 
> > > Now be nice Lisi, I was trying to be.
> > 
> > Touché. :-(  Yes, that wasn't very nice.  But one can hardly compare
> > 1985 with now!  Hard drives were in single figure gig sizes.
> > 
> > Lisi
> 
> You are late to the party Lisi, and I still have several MFM interface 10 
> and 20 megabyte Tandon drives that did function the last time they were 
> powered up.  They were on my office CoCo3 when I was the CE at WDTV.  My 
> own first hard drive here at home, also on a coco3, was a 30 megger.  No 
> partitions needed there, but when we started using Amiga's for gfx at the 
> tv station, we did partition them to separate the OS stuffs from the 
> production stuff. That was in '87 or '88 IIRC.

That goes a long way to solving the self-inflicted problem you wrote to
-user about.


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