RE: [expert] Removing SCSI devices?

[b5dave]

Nice! It's all good. Thanks. The reason html mail is problematic has to
do with one of the basic *nix philosophies, i.e., one tool for one job.
Every *nix/linux mail program expects (more or less) to get some sort of
text format. Html, on the other hand, is generally handled by a web
browser. Consequently, if one is using a real and bonafide mail program,
html mail will end up looking something like this:

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> <DIV></DIV>&gt; My system(Mdk7.2) was installed with SCSI option.
> However,
> >since I 
> <DIV></DIV>&gt;decided to remove the SCSI drive, I just removed the
> drive(while
> SCSI 
> <DIV></DIV>&gt;adapter is still plugged in) then immediately I get the
> kernel
> panic at 
> <DIV></DIV>&gt;boot. 
> <DIV></DIV>&gt; 
> <DIV></DIV>&gt; What do I have to do for the system to boot up when the
> SCSI
> drive( and 
> <DIV></DIV>&gt;adapter) is removed? 
> <DIV></DIV>&gt; 
> <DIV></DIV>&gt; Thanks 
> <DIV></DIV>&gt; 
> <DIV></DIV>&gt; 
> <DIV></DIV>&gt;
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All this nonesense, I'm sure, is the result of Microsoft shenanigans. If
you are posting from Outlook*, then it wouldn't be surprising that M$ has
the web browser integrated into it, and everywhere else it can: that,
indeed, was the strategy M$ used to wipe out Netscape, and the basis of
the DOJ's/States' legal action.

Note also that M$, and even Netscape, often default to sending a plain
text email message with an html copy as an attachment. This too is a
*bad* thing. Turning *off* the html attachment is a *good* thing.

Plus you end up using way more badwidth than is needed, and this affects
us all: wasting or abusing bandwidth is a bad thing.

Peace,
dave.