Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 14:25:53 -0600 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: <chad@DCFinc.com> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <027601c053f9$3ede6be0$931576d8@inethouston.net> References: <200011211850.LAA10375@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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I think I originally installed it on my 2.2.5 machine when it first came out because I knew freebsd would be the only os on there. I didn't know that it was a workaround for some machines that had problems. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>; <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 12:50 PM Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) > As I recall, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > >> 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. > > I think John's point was to make it less likely a newbie (or > otherwise clueless individal) would create a DD disk thinking it > sounded cool. So, it wasn't so much that the option should be in > fdisk, but that it shouldn't be in sysinstall. And fdisk =does= > seem like a logical place for it. That's where you'd go to make a > non-DD disk that used the whole drive. > > This system I'm typing on has a properly fdisk'd boot drive and a > bunch of DD SCSI disks as the rest. I'm happy with that, but I > understand (given how obscure this issue is) the wish to make it a > little tougher to do. > > -crl > -- > Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? > chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net > DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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