Re: Fw: 8.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso weirdness (help!)

2011-08-03 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 08/03/2011 09:06 AM, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > I ran dd and zeroed out the entire first gigabyte of space on the > drive, yet grub was still there! I couldn't believe it. I'm on the > verge now of just zeroing out the entire drive. Hate to have to resort > to such a ridiculously extreme met

Re: Fw: 8.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso weirdness (help!)

2011-08-03 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 02:06:51 -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > Interesting to see the changes that have taken place in the meantime. > I've certainly got some catching up to do here. :-) You learn something new every day using FreeBSD. :-) > I much prefer to use ports, myself. I just like to

Fw: 8.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso weirdness (help!)

2011-08-03 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
Begin forwarded message (earlier I replied to the poster, but thought I'd share this with the list): On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 01:57:49 +0200, Polytropon wrote: >On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 18:06:06 -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: >> As another user mentioned elsewhere, the packages distributions are >> beyon