Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 08:05:53 -0800 (PST) From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devices under 4.0 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002180758580.17413-100000@mammalia.sea> In-Reply-To: <20000218192552.B32540@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 18 February 2000 at 0:13:10 -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote: > > Can someone of knowledge please outline how to create the devices for 4.0 > > and also how to edit /etc/fstab to correspond? > > For example, I upgraded to 4.0 from 3.2. 4.0, as I understand, uses > > different device names for the ide hard disks than 3.2. > > Yet, although I continue to use the old devices with no problems thus far, > > I am told that the devices should be changed. > > 4.0 hasn't been released yet. If you're using -CURRENT, > > 1. Subscribe to FreeBSD-current. > 2. Talk about it there, not on -questions. > 3. Be prepared to solve this kind of question yourself. > > -CURRENT isn't for people who need hand-holding. As I see it, -CURRENT, or anything else for that matter, is for anyone who chooses to run it. If you don't want to 'hold my hand', you certainly have no obligation to respond to my question. I feel I can learn a lot more running -CURRENT by solving these kind of problems than I can running 3.4 or whatever. And that's really the only reason I run FreeBSD. I have no servers, no mission critical applications, no mission at all except to tinker and learn new things. >There are a number of issues with 4.0. The one you're referringto > depends on the driver you use. If you use wd (not recommended), > nothing changes. If you use ata, some things change, but they're not > critical. I'm writing this from a 4.0-CURRENT machine with the ata > driver and with the old device nodes. > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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