Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:14:26 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Sam Zamarripa <samz@oz.net>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <XFMail.001120111426.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20001120110735.R58333@echunga.lemis.com>
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On 20-Nov-00 Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 20 November 2000 at 11:06:14 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > They aren't 'MS partition tables'. > > And they don't waste much space. > They waste space. In most cases, they're not needed. Isn't that > enough? No, they are confusing and can cause problems if later you decide that you want make the disk bootable. They _are_ necessary with certain BIOSen. At least remove the option from sysinstall so new users don't get stuck with it. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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