On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 01:31:29AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote (1.00):
> > drives you've already had, all of your drive letters would move up by
> > one, 'causing no end of trouble.
> 
> a short edit of /etc/fstab
> a possible recreation of a symlink in /dev, or two, or three
> 
> what else?

A complete inability to boot because the root partition is now
elsewhere.  Adding new hardware shouldn't normally require a rescue
disk, and shouldn't radically change the current working system.

My point is, it's a stupid design decision that (thankfully) is being
corrected, but MS isn't the only group of people guilty of this kind of
thing.

M

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