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Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 20:04:25 +1000
From: Bruce Ellis <brucee@chunder.com>
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To: lucio@proxima.alt.za,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil question
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"inconvenience" isn't the right word when your
machine doesn't have a CD drive.  and the bfrees
were disastrous.

brucee

lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:

>>>I normally do this as a first resort, rather than running thousands
>>>of bfrees.  Then I know I'm starting from a clean state.  Is there
>>>any disadvantage in doing it this way?
>>
>>nope.  just the inconvenience of booting an install cd.
>
>
> Is it out of the question to include or at least document a procedure
> to do this as painfully and risk free as possible?  It sounds terribly
> error prone, otherwise.
>
> ++L