Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 18:39:19 +0100 From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall disks.c Message-ID: <19980320183919.62224@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <13801.890321824@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Thu, Mar 19, 1998 at 07:37:04AM -0800 References: <19980319163042.52677@follo.net> <13801.890321824@time.cdrom.com>
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > You wouldn't happen to have a clue how to handle the 're-install on > > dangerously dedicated' case correctly? It routinely bite people. > > I'd need a lot more information on how it's biting people. I wasn't > aware that there was any problem with this particular scenario That's simple. The way sysinstall `detects' that a user is running `DD' mode is by just remembering the historical event that this user has been answering `A)ll FreeBSD', followed by `no'. Only in this case (and after this sequence in the fdisk manager), the final question about to install which MBR is being skipped. Needless to say, that doesn't actually count as `detection' of a DD case, so in case you've actually decided for a DD system previously (be it half a year ago, or just five minutes ago in a previous fdisk manager run), it'll offer the MBR menue again, defaulting to booteasy. Installing booteasy (or a standard MBR) over a DD disk shoots the user into his foot. I didn't find an easy solution to this problem back in the days when i hacked DD mode into sysinstall, short of rewriting a bunch of code. I've punted on that option since there has been the promise for years now that sysinstall will be abandoned some day... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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