From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 18 19:52:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C651537BB6D for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 19:51:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id OAA43784; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 14:21:47 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 14:21:47 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: R Joseph Wright Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devices under 4.0 Message-ID: <20000219142147.S41278@freebie.lemis.com> References: <20000218192552.B32540@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 18 February 2000 at 8:05:53 -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Friday, 18 February 2000 at 0:13:10 -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote: >>> Can someone of knowledge please outline how to create the devices for 4.0 >>> and also how to edit /etc/fstab to correspond? >>> For example, I upgraded to 4.0 from 3.2. 4.0, as I understand, uses >>> different device names for the ide hard disks than 3.2. >>> Yet, although I continue to use the old devices with no problems thus far, >>> I am told that the devices should be changed. >> >> 4.0 hasn't been released yet. If you're using -CURRENT, >> >> 1. Subscribe to FreeBSD-current. >> 2. Talk about it there, not on -questions. >> 3. Be prepared to solve this kind of question yourself. >> >> -CURRENT isn't for people who need hand-holding. > > As I see it, -CURRENT, or anything else for that matter, is for > anyone who chooses to run it. If you don't want to 'hold my hand', > you certainly have no obligation to respond to my question. Indeed. You'll notice nobody else did. > I feel I can learn a lot more running -CURRENT by solving these kind > of problems than I can running 3.4 or whatever. And that's really > the only reason I run FreeBSD. > > I have no servers, no mission critical applications, no mission at > all except to tinker and learn new things. Fine, not a problem. But that doesn't mean it makes sense to ask questions in an inappropriate forum. You might find it useful to read http://www.lemis.com/questions.html. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message