Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 11:24:54 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Tom <tom@sdf.com> Cc: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DPT install problem Message-ID: <199805221824.LAA01141@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 22 May 1998 10:41:41 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980522103909.20211C-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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> > > Currently it is pretty hard to bootstrap a new DPT system. You have to > be able to build a kernel somewhere else as sysinstall will install a > non-DPT kernel, and you can't use sysinstall to allocate large DPT > partitions. I fear for the new user. New users are less than likely to be presented with such a situation. However, there are a couple of things that you personally (and other concerned users) can do to help the situation. - Contribute commentary (as you have), documentation and source/ procedural fixes. Remeber that FreeBSD is a volunteer project - your support means that it will continue to improve. - Donate a DPT controller to our testing pool so that we can test with it. Chances are we can scrape enough disks together in one place to meet the 20GB mark if we have one. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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