From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 18 12:50: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9376937B400 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:50:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4249543E3B for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:50:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AFA328CA9 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 15:49:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 15:49:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: FreeBSD LIST Subject: boot0cfg & fixit.flp Message-ID: <20020718154623.W25676-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I feel that the boot0cfg command (and its sister fdisk command) should prompt the user "Are you booted up to the hard disk [NOT RECOMMENDED] or to media?!" and further ought to instruct the user to insert a floppy disk to back up the current MBR. That way you'd have something of an "undo" scheme. :( {By the way, nobody commented on my fixit.flp suggestions...} -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message