From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 9:33:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from po3.glue.umd.edu (po3.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5ECA37B479 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 09:33:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from glue.umd.edu (poseidon.student.umd.edu [129.2.144.21]) by po3.glue.umd.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id eAJHWEX22734; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 12:32:15 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A180EA0.31926227@glue.umd.edu> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 12:32:16 -0500 From: Brandon Fosdick X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Roelof Osinga Subject: Re: Dangerously Dedicated References: <200011191657.eAJGvnZ63007@cwsys.cwsent.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > 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? So we're going to be stuck with MS style partitions on machines that only run FreeBSD? I don't like this idea. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message