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Date:      Sun, 19 Nov 2000 08:56:59 -0800
From:      Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Roelof Osinga <roelof@eboa.com>
Subject:   Dangerously Dedicated 
Message-ID:  <200011191657.eAJGvnZ63007@cwsys.cwsent.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Nov 2000 08:38:22 PST." <20001119083822.A39683@dragon.nuxi.com> 

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In message <20001119083822.A39683@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" 
writes:
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 01:55:29PM +0100, Roelof Osinga wrote:
> > Yesterday I installed the 4.2 RC1 in dangerously dedicated
> > mode on a SCSI disk I had lying around.
> 
> Why did you choose a "dangerously dedicated" install?  "dangerously
> dedicated" might go away in the future (as it doesn't leave space enough
> space for boot0).  Unless the normal slice configuration won't work for
> you, there really is no good reason to use "dangerously dedicated".

If/when dangerously dedicated goes away, will there be special 
provision for Zip and Jazz disks?  Or, will we need to put an fdisk 
style partition table on Zip and Jazz disks, then slice them with 
disklabel?


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





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