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Date:      Mon, 20 Nov 2000 15:59:26 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated)
Message-ID:  <20001120155926.L58333@echunga.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <69863.974694902@winston.osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com on Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 08:35:02PM -0800
References:  <imp@village.org> <69863.974694902@winston.osd.bsdi.com>

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On Sunday, 19 November 2000 at 20:35:02 -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
>> 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.

Agreed.

Greg
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