Invalid Partion - help on setting up loader

[rob copsey]

Thank you David!

I was getting beat down with profane acronyms and now I'm scared of
posting anything more on this topic . . . 

Whatever happened to good ol' manners and common courtesy?

I appreciate the clarification.

Regards,
Rob

> Sorry for jumping in late, but I just got back from the Christmas 
> holidays...
> 
> On Friday 26 December 2003 07:55 am, rob copsey wrote:
> 
> > This is a good question, and one that I've pondered too.
> > I think the people who developed the charter for this list
> > had premonitions of it becoming the "cliff notes" version
> > of the handbook for those who would intend to bypass the learning
> > process. So, in fairness to those who worked so hard preparing
> > the handbook and others who donate their time writing articles
> > and how-tos; this list isn't just a quick overview/summary.
> 
> This list isn't meant to be "cliff notes". It's not to be any sort of 
> technical support at all. There are several great lists for technical 
> questions, and this isn't one of them.
> 
> The reason is simple, but needs a bit of pondering to understand why. 
> FreeBSD has an unparalled reputation of stability. This reputation 
> would be destroyed if people new to FreeBSD got bad advice.
> 
> So why would you get bad advice from this forum? Because we're all 
> newbies! We don't know what we're talking about. Getting technical 
> support from a newbie site is like (pardon the cliche) the blind 
> leading the blind. It's silly. Just because random bits of bad advice 
> from inexperienced users is the normal mode of support for Linux 
means 
> that it we should do the same.
> 
> We have lists that are monitored by experienced users. This is not 
one 
> of them. The reason technical questions are not allowed here because 
> they imply technical answers. Newbies aren't qualified to give 
complete 
> and accurate answers to technical questions.
> 
> David
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