Re: SEUL: FIPS

[Cyberdyn <cyberdyn@seul.org>]

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On 18-Feb-98 George Bonser wrote:
- -> 
- -> First of all, FIPS only works on msdos FAT filesystems.  It will not
- -> resize OS/2 HPFS filesystems or Win95 filesystems (I dont think).

FIPS2 does the deed.

- -> Rather than trying to be all things to all people and attempt to learn how
- -> to resize multi-boot system partitions (what do we do with a system that
- -> has SCO, Solaris x86, FreeBSD, or OS/2 in the first partition), I say we
- -> should leave that up to the vendors of disk utilities and concern
- -> ourselves with making a clean install.

There's a lot to this statement.  An OS other than Windoze 95 is going to be
much larger as well.  I'd have a much harder time deciding between a Unix OS
and Linux than a Windoze OS and Linux.


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E-Mail: Cyberdyn@seul.org       Date: 18-Feb-98        Time: 00:24:24
Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I want to be when
I grow up.
                -- Peter Drucker


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