Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 14:13:06 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, obrien@NUXI.com Subject: Re: *HEADS UP* Correction to previous postings. Message-ID: <199803152213.OAA12045@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 15 Mar 1998 20:16:39 %2B0100." <19980315201639.23917@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> I hope Mike's changes don't start to unsupport non-sliced disks... I You could have just asked. Or you could look at my "disklabel auto" bumper sticker. > problems, then well, install a small DOS partition first.'' That's > simply plain unacceptable (and looks very unprofessional, too), and > the intention behind my ``dangerously dedicated'' mode sysinstall > changes were simply to support the class of people who Just Don't Care > about any f*****ing fdisk table at all (since they don't need it, all > they need is a disklabel). Unfortunately, the "dangerously dedicated" sysinstall code *does* install a valid slice. It is the misinformation that you are propagating here that is the direct cause of the unhappiness with the integration of the "mount the right root filesystem" patches. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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