From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 22 04:53:23 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50DDD1065676 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 04:53:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@dougbarton.us) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx22.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC06C8FC18 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 04:53:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 7808 invoked by uid 399); 22 Aug 2011 04:26:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO 172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@12.207.105.210) by mail2.fluidhosting.com with ESMTPAM; 22 Aug 2011 04:26:40 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 12.207.105.210 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:26:37 -0700 From: Doug Barton To: Adrian Chadd Message-ID: <20110821212637.39bb22de@172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net> In-Reply-To: References: <4E4DB9A7.4040404@freebsd.org> <4E517978.2020705@freebsd.org> <64622705-80AB-4FEF-91E9-8F3041818B4E@xcllnt.net> <4E519C13.4060700@freebsd.org> <4E51B228.7030001@freebsd.org> <0AF19658-2FA7-48EC-9EA2-67DC26DAC1D4@xcllnt.net> <4E51BD0E.7040204@freebsd.org> Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.24.5; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:58:58 +0000 Cc: "freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Current" , Nathan Whitehorn , Marcel Moolenaar Subject: Re: Well, there goes Windows! X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 04:53:23 -0000 On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:23:43 +0800 Adrian Chadd wrote: > 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". +1 -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/