Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:39:50 +0100 From: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> To: Olivier Nicole <olivier.nicole@cs.ait.ac.th>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Am I getting too old Message-ID: <52DF91E6.2070809@eskk.nu> In-Reply-To: <CA%2Bg%2BBvhVNSwXH%2BYCd5X4y6jjKTZJMSvPvpRj1N=NXessFYXOrg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2Bg%2BBvhVNSwXH%2BYCd5X4y6jjKTZJMSvPvpRj1N=NXessFYXOrg@mail.gmail.com>
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Olivier Nicole skrev 2014-01-22 10:18: > Hi, > > in the old times (FreeBSD 8) it took me 5 minutes to partition a disk > for a test machine: create a couple of MS DOS partitions, install the > MBR, create FreeBSD partitions, done. It used to be working easily, > efficiently and reliably. > > Now it had been one day since I tried to reproduce that with FreeBSD > 9, not to avail: I always end up with messaged saying things like > invalid partition, or stuff like that. > > What was the rational behind the decision of breaking something that > used to work fine (that had been working fine for over 10 years) and > replace it with something that is ugly, unfriendly (you have to give > some types to the partitions, but nowhere is it written what type is > allowed or not) and that is not working? > > Oh maybe if I choose to go all by default it will work, but I don't > want the default, I want to be allowed to make my own choices easily. > > Best regards > > Olivier If this had been Facebook I would have liked your post :-) /Leslie
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