From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 29 02:13:04 1995 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA11413 for stable-outgoing; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 02:13:04 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA11393 ; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 02:12:53 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA04860; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 10:21:52 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA10908; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 10:21:03 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA12433; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 09:59:56 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199510290859.JAA12433@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: probs with latest stable snap To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 09:59:55 +0100 (MET) Cc: swallace@ece.uci.edu, stable@freebsd.org, bugs@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <4836.814910348@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 28, 95 12:59:08 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 827 Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > First, when installing, I tried to create two freebsd partitions on the > > same drive. When it tried to format the partitions, I got > > "/dev/rsd0s1a: 'a' partition is unavailable" > > DO NOT DO THAT. I guess I'll have to make it an error to do so since > there are a lot of ways you can hose yourself if you do this (for one > thing, it will only boot from the first partition it finds). Don't make it an error, but make a warning box appear. (Something like somebody who's trying to install without /usr.) Sometimes there might be good reasons to have two FreeBSD slices, but the user must be aware of the implications. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)