From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 21 12:19:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from leviathan.inethouston.com (216-118-21-146.pdq.net [216.118.21.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6094537B4C5 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 12:19:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from dwcjr (DWCJR.inethouston.net [216.118.21.147]) by leviathan.inethouston.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ABBE177E17; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 14:26:06 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <027601c053f9$3ede6be0$931576d8@inethouston.net> From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: Cc: References: <200011211850.LAA10375@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 14:25:53 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" To: Cc: ; 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