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From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/disklabel disklabel.8
In-Reply-To: <199907310812.BAA05505@freefall.freebsd.org> from Greg Lehey at "Jul 31, 1999 01:12:00 am"
To: grog@FreeBSD.org (Greg Lehey)
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> grog        1999/07/31 01:11:59 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sbin/disklabel       disklabel.8 
>   Log:
>   Make intelligible:
>     Describe the command formats in English.
>     Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk).
>     Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps.
>     Add example of output format.
>   
>   Not-objected-to-by:	msmith
>   			rnordier

Actually, I do object: 24 hours (particularly Friday afternoon through
Saturday morning) is probably too short a period after which to assume
"qui tacet consentire" in the case of a volunteer project.

Although the restructuring makes some information easier to digest,
I think in other ways, this is a step in the wrong direction: it is
too i386-centric, and IMO anything relating to the slice structure
(boot0cfg and fdisk) has no business being discussed here.  (Even the
pre-existing reference to the fdisk table in the BUGS section would be
better discarded.)

A sample specific gripe:

|   The booteasy bootstrap manager
|
|    FreeBSD supplies a boot manager called booteasy which resides in
|    the Master Boot Record.  Use the boot0cfg program to install it.

The default FreeBSD/i386 boot manager is simply called "boot0"; it
is *not* called "booteasy", which is a different DOS-based program
that is also available (on CD-ROMs, at ftp.FreeBSD.org, etc.) in the
(DOS) "tools" directory.  You can't use boot0cfg to install booteasy.

| jkh         1998/12/08 18:46:20 PST
|
|   Modified files:
|     release/sysinstall   menus.c 
|   Log:
|   Stop erroneously claiming that we're installing booteasy.
|  
|   Revision  Changes    Path
|   1.176     +2 -2      src/release/sysinstall/menus.c

-- 
Robert Nordier


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