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lmm on June 9, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: FreeBSD 10.3 officially supported on Microsoft Azu...

It took a long time for FreeBSD to support MS-DOS partitioning, so for a long time you couldn't dual-boot between Windows and FreeBSD without buying a second hard disk. So kids getting started tended to run Linux instead of FreeBSD, and they stuck with what they knew.

emaste on June 9, 2016 [–]

DOS partition support was added to the FreeBSD installer over two decades ago:

    Tue Sep 7 12:02:11 1993 UTC (22 years, 9 months ago)
    Added DOS partition support and maybe badblock remappping.

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=408

mioelnir on June 9, 2016 | [–]

I love that maybe in there.

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