From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 13:29:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-178-138.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.178.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36D5A37B4C5 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:29:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAJLZxF09603; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:35:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200011192135.eAJLZxF09603@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Roelof Osinga Subject: Re: Dangerously Dedicated In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 Nov 2000 08:56:59 PST." <200011191657.eAJGvnZ63007@cwsys.cwsent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:35:59 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In message <20001119083822.A39683@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" > writes: > > On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 01:55:29PM +0100, Roelof Osinga wrote: > > > Yesterday I installed the 4.2 RC1 in dangerously dedicated > > > mode on a SCSI disk I had lying around. > > > > Why did you choose a "dangerously dedicated" install? "dangerously > > dedicated" might go away in the future (as it doesn't leave space enough > > space for boot0). Unless the normal slice configuration won't work for > > you, there really is no good reason to use "dangerously dedicated". > > If/when dangerously dedicated goes away, will there be special > provision for Zip and Jazz disks? Why would there be? > Or, will we need to put an fdisk > style partition table on Zip and Jazz disks, then slice them with > disklabel? They're just normal disks. Heck, they even come from the factory with slice tables on them. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message