Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 12:37:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No /boot/loader (dangerously dedicated) Message-ID: <200007221638.MAA33488@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <200007211812.LAA70208@pike.osd.bsdi.com> from John Baldwin at "Jul 21, 2000 11:12:59 am"
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John Baldwin once stated: => Wait! Smarter then what? So it can boot NT and Win98 for some => weenies, or, actually do something useful (not sure what, though)? => Why am I to waste space (even so little) "to be compatible with other => OSes", if there will never be any other OSes? = =Is 5 meg really worth the effort? You did not say, what the benefit is going to be. So far, the "effort" is needed to rip it out. What are you suggesting to do with all those existing installations? I already have about 20... And yes, it has to be a HUGE effort to justify 5Mb _per machine_. => =This would defititely help out at work, as I would no longer get the => =question from all of our users during the install "Should I be => =dedicated or not?" => => "Yes, you should" :) = ="No, you shouldn't." Some SCSI controllers are _known_ to go haywire =with a dangerously dedicated disk since it uses a completely bogus =geometry. Then those need to be explicitly listed and, better yet, identified at install time... This is, however, a one shot deal, but you'll be wasting those 5Mb forever. -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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