Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 06:04:01 +0300 From: "Valeriy E. Ushakov" <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <20001120060401.A9409@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.001120111426.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>; from "Daniel O'Connor" on Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:14:26 References: <20001120110735.R58333@echunga.lemis.com> <XFMail.001120111426.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:14:26 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > At least remove the option from sysinstall so new users don't get > stuck with it. Absolutely. First time I was setting up a FreeBSD box I was really clueless about MBR &c (all my previous machines were real hardware like VAX &c :-). So when I saw that "dangerously dedicated" option I was quick to conclude that the keyword is "dedicated", not "dangerously", and I thought I knew what I was doing. It's only when I had to set up a multiboot machine I did my homework and read docs on what MBR *really* is. So burying deeply or altogether removing that option from sysinstall would only do good for most people... Adding to the Handbook a pointer to MBR docs will help to educate people as well. SY, Uwe -- uwe@ptc.spbu.ru | Zu Grunde kommen http://www.ptc.spbu.ru/~uwe/ | Ist zu Grunde gehen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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