I'm upset about FreeBSD

Rostislav Krasny rosti.bsd at gmail.com
Wed Oct 19 18:21:05 UTC 2016


On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 21:57:29 +1100, Ian Smith <smithi at nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
>
> If FreeBSD GPT images (and Kindle readers) can trigger this, so could a
> theoretically unlimited combination of data on block 2 of USB media;
> modifying FreeBSD to fix a Windows bug should be out of the question.

Not modifying FreeBSD and not fixing Windows bug but modifying the
FreeBSD installation media and working around the Windows bug to let
people install FreeBSD without disappointing at very beginning. Why
GPT is used in the memstick images at all? Why they can't be MBR
based? I think they can.


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