Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:35:59 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Roelof Osinga <roelof@eboa.com> Subject: Re: Dangerously Dedicated Message-ID: <200011192135.eAJLZxF09603@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Nov 2000 08:56:59 PST." <200011191657.eAJGvnZ63007@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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> 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?
Why would there be?
> Or, will we need to put an fdisk
> style partition table on Zip and Jazz disks, then slice them with
> disklabel?
They're just normal disks. Heck, they even come from the factory with
slice tables on them.
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