From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 17 10:37:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA17700 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 10:37:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA17548 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 10:37:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA09711 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:37:12 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:37:12 -0500 (EST) From: jack To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATTENTION: Call for opinion re: root device naming change (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Take it out. It makes an `upgrade' install a real guru level activity. The Disklabel Editor screen comes up showing NO partitions. Unless you know the sizes of your existing ones, and flip the NEWFS flags, everything will be lost. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message