From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 2 05:05:11 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FB1D1065679 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 05:05:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sektie@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pw0-f44.google.com (mail-pw0-f44.google.com [209.85.160.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D63C38FC13 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 05:05:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwj15 with SMTP id 15so3178222pwj.3 for ; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:05:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type; bh=PWMguRFXh//2I3HUQCiXCqNNFORnuNi+hQBca5HXHNM=; b=GRTXME9WIRLpQ/jO1e6Aa8r4l/LbHZMw9UXbMvUanXefZIAsnEfGMMMa33zYl03qdb OzbrU1opMRv6xtcV6ZWQcDp4sTuMF8zsXN45G15Hfu6aMjB8o2ZT7KAukMq8V2i8UCm1 oMqBlPb23/JTzs8ClGFZiKM9pGq4ZzVJUWfBg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=D7k5jidviMZbpOPPwu9QrlV3kBjrucSOI8wFuZrDC95+ba03Q6YeoNrdMof6bDkewx qqFgiYQJKdvneGtN4s9T/6CGVjABO4tHJBG12x60PQUEDJXh0/CaITwvgL0LKLcsjzy9 8CCm7CEG8Rqvj0k6Y6v/f1nsAlL7xYunsk76g= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: sektie@gmail.com Received: by 10.142.3.3 with SMTP id 3mr724712wfc.141.1259730310394; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:05:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <1789c2360911280928t1e6e7b06p707abc1131f82bef@mail.gmail.com> <26ddd1750912010459weda306esbb81d7a2b7025b6e@mail.gmail.com> <20091201210321.GA39958@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 21:05:10 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 91e3671b40cd3474 Message-ID: From: Randi Harper To: Jerry McAllister Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Maxim Khitrov , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Peggy Wilkins Subject: Re: 8.0-RELEASE and "dangerously dedicated" disks X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:05:11 -0000 > Did you see all the mailing list chatter about new installations > failing due to sysinstall not being able to newfs device names that > didn't exist? This is related. Also, a partition table isn't just a > partition table. It's a little more complex than that. It has > *nothing* to do with the filesystems inside. It has everything to do > with the way that FreeBSD looks at the drive to figure out what's on > it. See man pages for geom/gpart. There are others that have given a > better explanation than I can provide (marcus, juli). Search the > archives. Trust me, I didn't remove DD support from sysinstall just to > make life more complicated for everyone. I did this because as it > stands right now, it doesn't work. Sigh, correction. marcel, not marcus. -- randi