From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 21:35:30 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 1FE4037B4CF for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 21:35:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by echunga.lemis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eAK5TQI65253; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 15:59:26 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 15:59:26 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: Warner Losh , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <20001120155926.L58333@echunga.lemis.com> References: <69863.974694902@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 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 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 -- 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