Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:33:29 +1000 From: "Peter Ross" <Peter.Ross@bogen.in-berlin.de> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Well, there goes Windows! Message-ID: <20110822143329.1608794cjui0lmah@webmail.in-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmo=tBaU2ssDZOHs344ri5-UTiSQasbt4bcbZGWUDM3HkPQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGH67wRFP9nFQLr0Gh-h4rKWrndZSy=6Q%2BKLC_U5Fg4RD%2BJMCw@mail.gmail.com> <4E4DB9A7.4040404@freebsd.org> <CAGH67wQoXOju3=OTh%2B6JoKLxkp7Vzqu8vg%2BO9X=DPXB5EkBJtQ@mail.gmail.com> <4E517978.2020705@freebsd.org> <64622705-80AB-4FEF-91E9-8F3041818B4E@xcllnt.net> <4E519C13.4060700@freebsd.org> <C429B7D4-08DD-4A86-BC4E-07B29B755736@xcllnt.net> <4E51B228.7030001@freebsd.org> <0AF19658-2FA7-48EC-9EA2-67DC26DAC1D4@xcllnt.net> <CAJ-VmomU77Afb_e5sAPdKb3en8Z%2B-w1E2G4JfLyfGXrQtiA3_Q@mail.gmail.com> <4E51BD0E.7040204@freebsd.org> <CAJ-Vmo=tBaU2ssDZOHs344ri5-UTiSQasbt4bcbZGWUDM3HkPQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Quoting "Adrian Chadd" <adrian@freebsd.org>: > I totally get it. > > However, an installer is user-facing (here), as well as system-facing. > As much as I understand the logic behind it, it is still going to > surprise people to find that their partition tables are modified at > any point before that final "commit". > > Linux installers manage to do it. :-) But they do not get it right all the time. With RHEL and CentOS 5 I had a deterministic way of setting up virtual machines with LVM so they could not boot;-) Just to lower the expectation a bit. Regards Peter
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