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Re: Linux 0.95 - booting problems.

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From: Linus Benedict Torvalds <torvalds@...>
Subject: Re: Linux 0.95 - booting problems.
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 1992 - 9:21 am

It seems 0.95 has enough problems with some hardware that it may not be

a good idea to upgrade right now: I'll have to find the bugs first.  The

problems include things like not reading/writing the harddisk correctly,

which can result in protection errors (the executables get read in

incorrectly) and in the worst case in file-system damage.  This is not

universal: on some machines linus-0.95 seems to work without problems,

others see partial problems, while still others are virtually unable to

run 0.95. 


If someone will use 0.95 just to find out all the problems, I'd be

happy, but otherwise I'll try to get a new version out the door in a

week or so, which hopefully works better on more machines..  


                Linus "eggface" Torvalds
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