From owner-cvs-all Sat Feb 24 4:55: 2 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 656FA37B67D; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 04:54:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id NAA15472; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 13:54:07 +0100 (CET) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA13870; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 13:25:09 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from j) Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 13:25:08 +0100 From: J Wunsch To: Peter Wemm Cc: Jordan Hubbard , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall disks.c Message-ID: <20010224132508.A13817@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch References: <20010222203042.C2043@elia.heep.sax.de> <200102222311.f1MNBBf41756@mobile.wemm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200102222311.f1MNBBf41756@mobile.wemm.org>; from peter@netplex.com.au on Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 03:11:11PM -0800 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Peter Wemm wrote: > If only it were so. We stopped using DD mode at yahoo because we > could not dd disk images from scsi <-> IDE and use scsi disks on > different controllers (eg: ncr/sym <-> adaptec). I generally ignore IDE disks (except for my notebook), so i can't tell about this. But moving disks between various SCSI controllers has always worked for me. Maybe i didn't test that case very much lately, i admit. Also, i'm simply ignoring fdisk tables as a matter of principle since they are of no use to me... > In the end, we just completely gave > up and now use PXE to create non-DD disks. Btw., where can i find some documentation about PXE? I've seen the term referenced here and there, but have no clue about it. > We were still seeing people posting regularly on the lists that had > installed DD disks themselves using sysinstall and it caused their > SCSI bios to lock up. That's why i completely agree that waving the DD mode question to the innocent user is not such a bright idea in these days where PCs are going to become even more PCish (aka more insane) instead of dropping a whole bunch of long overdue compat cruft completely overboard... The only thing i'd like to see is that the option should be documented (in sysinstall's menu), so people who want to find it (since they know what it actually means) have a chance. I hate the old `wizard' mode as well since it always caused me to lookup the source code in order to find which d*mned key to press in order to get at it. > Bring on EFI! Pure LBA based! :-) URL? But i'm afraid it might be a too large project for my current time constraints... -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message