From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 8:58:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A47BA37B4C5 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 08:58:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id IAA10650; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 08:58:21 -0800 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda10648; Sun Nov 19 08:58:09 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eAJGw4G06426; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 08:58:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdOG6424; Sun Nov 19 08:57:49 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eAJGvnZ63007; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 08:57:49 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200011191657.eAJGvnZ63007@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdW63003; Sun Nov 19 08:56:59 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE X-Sender: cy To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Roelof Osinga Subject: Dangerously Dedicated In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 Nov 2000 08:38:22 PST." <20001119083822.A39683@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 08:56:59 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20001119083822.A39683@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes: > On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 01:55:29PM +0100, Roelof Osinga wrote: > > Yesterday I installed the 4.2 RC1 in dangerously dedicated > > mode on a SCSI disk I had lying around. > > Why did you choose a "dangerously dedicated" install? "dangerously > dedicated" might go away in the future (as it doesn't leave space enough > space for boot0). Unless the normal slice configuration won't work for > you, there really is no good reason to use "dangerously dedicated". If/when dangerously dedicated goes away, will there be special provision for Zip and Jazz disks? Or, will we need to put an fdisk style partition table on Zip and Jazz disks, then slice them with disklabel? Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message