From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 24 14:26: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ocis.ocis.net (ocis.ocis.net [209.52.173.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF6A937B401 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 14:26:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fcash@ocis.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by ocis.ocis.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA27911; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 14:26:02 -0700 Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 14:26:02 -0700 Message-Id: <200107242126.OAA27911@ocis.ocis.net> From: "Freddie Cash" To: stable@freebsd.org Reply-To: fcash@bigfoot.com Subject: RE: Regarding hw.ata.wc="1"..... X-Mailer: Open WebMail 1.13 X-OriginatingIP: 207.23.161.23 (fcash) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On July 24, 2001 09:08 am, you wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:53:02AM -0700, Mike Hoskins wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Jason Andresen wrote: > > > A sysinstall prompt would be nice though. An even nicer option > > > would be a little menu on the diskLabel part of the install that > > > asks what options you want to enable on the filesystem when you > > > create it (softupdates, etc...). > > Not a bad idea... should be much easier to implement since > > softupdates became more 'standard' (no more licensing issues). :) > There is now an option in sysinstall's disk label editor to turn > softupdates on. This is on a machine cvsupped on July 7 this > year. I don't know when the option showed up. It's been there since at lesat 4.3R, and I'm pretty sure I remember seeing it in 4.2R. -- Cheers, Freddie fcash@bigfoot.com Copyright: Big business uses it to lock away knowledge and software. Copyleft: Free software zealots use it prevent business from locking anything up. Copycenter: Take it to the copy centre and make as many copies as you need. -- paraphrased from Kirk McKusick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message