On 2018-02-07 09:27, Wesley Parish wrote:
To install Linux (I cut my teeth on SLS
0.99pl(largelyforgotten) ) you
had to do something with sectors and the like. And if you didn't know
about sectors, you screwed up and learnt damn fast. It's quite an
education re-installing something because the file system won't fit on
the miniscule partition you've made for it, and you pay attention this
time!!!
But wasn't it the same on *BSD too? If you didn't have a disk which was
supported, and had the right entries already you sat there for a while
with the calculator ;-)