From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 19: 4:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from flux.ptc.spbu.ru (flux.ptc.spbu.ru [195.19.225.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF2C437B479 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 19:04:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from snark.ptc.spbu.ru (snark.ptc.spbu.ru [195.19.225.131]) by flux.ptc.spbu.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3/cf-1.0.rbl) with ESMTP id GAA21881 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 06:04:02 +0300 (MSK) Received: (from uwe@localhost) by snark.ptc.spbu.ru (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id GAA09447 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 06:04:01 +0300 (MSK) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 06:04:01 +0300 From: "Valeriy E. Ushakov" To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <20001120060401.A9409@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> Mail-Followup-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20001120110735.R58333@echunga.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.3i In-Reply-To: ; from "Daniel O'Connor" on Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:14:26 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:14:26 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > At least remove the option from sysinstall so new users don't get > stuck with it. Absolutely. First time I was setting up a FreeBSD box I was really clueless about MBR &c (all my previous machines were real hardware like VAX &c :-). So when I saw that "dangerously dedicated" option I was quick to conclude that the keyword is "dedicated", not "dangerously", and I thought I knew what I was doing. It's only when I had to set up a multiboot machine I did my homework and read docs on what MBR *really* is. So burying deeply or altogether removing that option from sysinstall would only do good for most people... Adding to the Handbook a pointer to MBR docs will help to educate people as well. SY, Uwe -- uwe@ptc.spbu.ru | Zu Grunde kommen http://www.ptc.spbu.ru/~uwe/ | Ist zu Grunde gehen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message