From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 1 05:35:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF54916A4CE for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2003 05:35:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.yadt.co.uk (xfiles.yadt.co.uk [81.187.204.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F168343F75 for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2003 05:35:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from davidt@yadt.co.uk) Received: (qmail 96612 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2003 13:35:30 -0000 Received: from gattaca.yadt.co.uk (HELO mail.gattaca.yadt.co.uk) (qmailr@81.187.204.179) by xfiles.yadt.co.uk with SMTP; 1 Nov 2003 13:35:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 49671 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Nov 2003 13:35:30 -0000 Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 13:35:29 +0000 From: David Taylor To: current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031101133529.GA30137@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: current@freebsd.org References: <3F9F299C.8050504@ciam.ru> <20031029090121.U37386@carver.gumbysoft.com> <3F9FF8DD.7040100@ciam.ru> <20031029173150.Q39476@carver.gumbysoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031029173150.Q39476@carver.gumbysoft.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: problems with sysinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 13:35:38 -0000 On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Sergey Matveychuk wrote: >> Doug White wrote: >>> This is normal and for your protection. you can't edit the disk you're >>> running off of. If you are running off of ad1, make sure 1) you're root >>> when you run sysinstall and b) you aren't mounting any filesystems from >>> ad0. >> >> Well, I understand it for slices. But why I can't create new partition >> in exist slice and newfs it? It was OK in -stable. > > yes, this is a change to -current. It is for your own safety. My own safety? I can down the system in a million ways, yet can't do what I actually want? A major reason I got fed up with Windows (other than it not working right) was it's insistance of knowing what was best for me. I hope FreeBSD doesn't fall down the same path. Or at least have a kernel option FOOT_SHOOTING, or something, that will disable all the helpful code protection people from themselves. -- David Taylor davidt@yadt.co.uk "The future just ain't what it used to be"