From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 15 14:15:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA14282 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 14:15:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA14277 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 14:15:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA12045; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 14:13:08 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803152213.OAA12045@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Joerg Wunsch cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith , obrien@NUXI.com Subject: Re: *HEADS UP* Correction to previous postings. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 15 Mar 1998 20:16:39 +0100." <19980315201639.23917@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 14:13:06 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I hope Mike's changes don't start to unsupport non-sliced disks... I You could have just asked. Or you could look at my "disklabel auto" bumper sticker. > problems, then well, install a small DOS partition first.'' That's > simply plain unacceptable (and looks very unprofessional, too), and > the intention behind my ``dangerously dedicated'' mode sysinstall > changes were simply to support the class of people who Just Don't Care > about any f*****ing fdisk table at all (since they don't need it, all > they need is a disklabel). Unfortunately, the "dangerously dedicated" sysinstall code *does* install a valid slice. It is the misinformation that you are propagating here that is the direct cause of the unhappiness with the integration of the "mount the right root filesystem" patches. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message