From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 20:35:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (winston.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.27.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEE1C37B479 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 20:35:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id eAK4Z2I69867; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 20:35:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com) To: Warner Losh Cc: Greg Lehey , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) In-Reply-To: Message from Warner Losh of "Sun, 19 Nov 2000 17:48:14 MST." <200011200048.RAA16419@harmony.village.org> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 20:35:02 -0800 Message-ID: <69863.974694902@winston.osd.bsdi.com> From: Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > But like mike said, it was the ability to create these for the boot > disk that is going away from sysinstall. It causes too many problems > on too many machines. Erm, FWIW, nobody has discussed removing this with me recently and I'd need to see a lot more proof of its total obsolescence before I'd accept its being diked out of sysinstall. What I could perhaps accept would be a different key for creating DD disks so that people didn't use it except very much on purpose. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message