From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 02:59:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA0C816A4CE for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 02:59:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ciam.ru (main.ciam.ru [213.147.57.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBB3643FDF for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 02:59:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sem@ciam.ru) Received: from sem.ciam.ru ([192.168.45.10] helo=ciam.ru) by mail.ciam.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.x) id 1AFAWg-00041g-2j; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:59:38 +0300 Message-ID: <3FA0EF65.5080008@ciam.ru> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:00:53 +0300 From: Sergey Matveychuk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Nyberg References: <3F9F299C.8050504@ciam.ru> <20031029090121.U37386@carver.gumbysoft.com> <3F9FF8DD.7040100@ciam.ru> <20031029173150.Q39476@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with sysinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:59:44 -0000 Richard Nyberg wrote: >Doug White wrote: > > 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. Agree. Why I can't change active slice? Or add a partition? Or repair my master boot record? It's absolutely safe. ---- Sem.