From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 21 7:35:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1806837B479 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 07:35:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id HAA19080; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 07:33:39 -0800 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda19078; Tue Nov 21 07:33:38 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eALFXRk00859; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 07:33:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdyqc857; Tue Nov 21 07:32:51 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eALFWnB24065; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 07:32:49 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200011211532.eALFWnB24065@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdD24061; Tue Nov 21 07:32:38 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE X-Sender: cy To: chad@DCFinc.com Cc: uwe@ptc.spbu.ru (Valeriy E. Ushakov), stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Nov 2000 19:01:21 MST." <200011210201.TAA07181@freeway.dcfinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 07:32:38 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200011210201.TAA07181@freeway.dcfinc.com>, "Chad R. Larson" writes: > As I recall, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:14:26 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >> At least remove the option from sysinstall so new users don't get > >> stuck with it. > > > > Absolutely. > > The last time this got beat to death, John Baldwin suggested moving > the option out from sysinstall, but adding it to fdisk. That way > newbies wouldn't see it up front, but it would still be available to > folks who knew what they were doing and wanted to do it. To manually create a DD disk, you don't need an option added to fdisk. Just disklabel the disk instead of fdisking it. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message