From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 30 15:35:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c0039.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E008637B423; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:35:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Received: from eboa.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id AAA11628; Tue, 1 May 2001 00:35:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Message-ID: <3AEDE89D.FC478F79@eboa.com> Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 00:35:09 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eBOA - Programming the Web X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: d_f0rce@gmx.de, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Dangerously Dedicated" setting in 4.3-R install References: <20892.988622448@www36.gmx.net> <20010430023201.W18676@fw.wintelcom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > >... > > Is there a special reason, why this option was removed? > > Too many people shooting themselves in the feet. It also > stuck those people with systems where certain boot tricks > were no longer possible. Yeah, well, isn't that what they're there for? Target practice? What I'm wondering is what the impact of this decision might be on the long term for those of us running dangerously dedicated (cough, cough)? Having "../sysinstall/disks.c" undocumented is one thing, having it not there - presumably because this chicked is still at 4.2-S - something different alltogether. Had a quick looksee, looks like that's the culprit allright. Somehow I find the thought of mayhap having to reformat my hard disks to install the latest and greatest - say 6.0-STABLE - quite unsettling . Roelof -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- eBOAź est. 1982 tel. +31-58-2123014 web. http://eBOA.com/ fax. +31-58-2160293 mail info@eBOA.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message