Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 09:59:55 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: swallace@ece.uci.edu, stable@freebsd.org, bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: probs with latest stable snap Message-ID: <199510290859.JAA12433@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <4836.814910348@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 28, 95 12:59:08 pm
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > First, when installing, I tried to create two freebsd partitions on the > > same drive. When it tried to format the partitions, I got > > "/dev/rsd0s1a: 'a' partition is unavailable" > > DO NOT DO THAT. I guess I'll have to make it an error to do so since > there are a lot of ways you can hose yourself if you do this (for one > thing, it will only boot from the first partition it finds). Don't make it an error, but make a warning box appear. (Something like somebody who's trying to install without /usr.) Sometimes there might be good reasons to have two FreeBSD slices, but the user must be aware of the implications. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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