From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 25 8:21:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from enterprise.sd73.bc.ca (unknown [207.23.161.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B07037B8A3 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:16:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fcash@bigfoot.com) Received: from darkside.lab.sd73.bc.ca (romulus-net.sd73.bc.ca [207.23.161.23]) by enterprise.sd73.bc.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA30814 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:21:06 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Freddie Cash Reply-To: fcash@bigfoot.com To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Regarding hw.ata.wc="1"...... Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:20:10 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <3B5D94E7.4680ACEF@mitre.org> <20010724110853.A5479@mikea.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20010724110853.A5479@mikea.ath.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01072409201000.00548@darkside.lab.sd73.bc.ca> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On July 24, 2001 09:08 am, you wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:53:02AM -0700, Mike Hoskins wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Jason Andresen wrote: > > > A sysinstall prompt would be nice though. An even nicer option > > > would be a little menu on the diskLabel part of the install that > > > asks what options you want to enable on the filesystem when you > > > create it (softupdates, etc...). > > Not a bad idea... should be much easier to implement since > > softupdates became more 'standard' (no more licensing issues). :) > There is now an option in sysinstall's disk label editor to turn > softupdates on. This is on a machine cvsupped on July 7 this > year. I don't know when the option showed up. It's been there since at lesat 4.3R, and I'm pretty sure I remember=20 seeing it in 4.2R. --=20 Cheers, Freddie fcash@bigfoot.com Copyright: Big business uses it to lock away knowledge and software. Copyleft: Free software zealots use it prevent business from locking=20 anything up. Copycenter: Take it to the copy centre and make as many copies as you=20 need. -- paraphrased from Kirk McKusick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message