From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 18:33:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from echunga.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 646BC37B479 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 18:33:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by echunga.lemis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eAK2Qmo63665; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 12:56:48 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 12:56:48 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Mike O'Dell" Cc: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" , Jim King , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <20001120125647.B58333@echunga.lemis.com> References: <4.3.2.20001119194541.02267d00@207.227.119.2> <200011200220.VAA77891@servo.ccr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200011200220.VAA77891@servo.ccr.org>; from mo@servo.ccr.org on Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 09:20:43PM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 19 November 2000 at 21:20:43 -0500, Mike O'Dell wrote: > > having partition tables on disks is just as much part of > the "PC architecture" as having to deal with the unpleasant > ealities of BIOS. use the hardware, play the game. > deal with it. Fine, if there's no alternative. But you're ignoring the fact that there is. We get rid of the BIOS as soon as we can after the boot. Why stick with the disk layout? Remember, I'm not saying "let's implement dedicated disks", I'm saying "let's not throw out dedicated disks". Having said that, if this is just a mod to sysinstall, it's not such a big deal. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message