Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 07:32:38 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: chad@DCFinc.com Cc: uwe@ptc.spbu.ru (Valeriy E. Ushakov), stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <200011211532.eALFWnB24065@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Nov 2000 19:01:21 MST." <200011210201.TAA07181@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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In message <200011210201.TAA07181@freeway.dcfinc.com>, "Chad R. Larson" writes: > As I recall, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:14:26 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >> At least remove the option from sysinstall so new users don't get > >> stuck with it. > > > > Absolutely. > > The last time this got beat to death, John Baldwin suggested moving > the option out from sysinstall, but adding it to fdisk. That way > newbies wouldn't see it up front, but it would still be available to > folks who knew what they were doing and wanted to do it. To manually create a DD disk, you don't need an option added to fdisk. Just disklabel the disk instead of fdisking it. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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