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Date:      Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:46:00 +0100
From:      Richard Nyberg <rnyberg@it.su.se>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problems with sysinstall
Message-ID:  <m1r80vawiv.wl@murmeldjur.it.su.se>
In-Reply-To: <20031029173150.Q39476@carver.gumbysoft.com>
References:  <3F9F299C.8050504@ciam.ru> <20031029090121.U37386@carver.gumbysoft.com> <3F9FF8DD.7040100@ciam.ru> <20031029173150.Q39476@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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At Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:32:29 -0800 (PST),
Doug White wrote:
> Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
> > Doug White wrote:
> > > This is normal and for your protection. you can't edit the disk you're
> > > running off of.  If you are running off of ad1, make sure 1) you're root
> > > when you run sysinstall and b) you aren't mounting any filesystems from
> > > ad0.
> >
> > Well, I understand it for slices. But why I can't create new partition
> > in exist slice and newfs it? It was OK in -stable.

I fail to understand either.

> yes, this is a change to -current. It is for your own safety.

I think this change in current is for the worse. I don't see why
I can't manage slices and partitions from my regular OS, but have
to boot up a CD to do the job. It's not even safer; I am perfectly
capable of destroying my disk layout from the CD too.

        -Richard



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