Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 12:32:16 -0500 From: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Roelof Osinga <roelof@eboa.com> Subject: Re: Dangerously Dedicated Message-ID: <3A180EA0.31926227@glue.umd.edu> References: <200011191657.eAJGvnZ63007@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > In message <20001119083822.A39683@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" > writes: > > On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 01:55:29PM +0100, Roelof Osinga wrote: > > > Yesterday I installed the 4.2 RC1 in dangerously dedicated > > > mode on a SCSI disk I had lying around. > > > > Why did you choose a "dangerously dedicated" install? "dangerously > > dedicated" might go away in the future (as it doesn't leave space enough > > space for boot0). Unless the normal slice configuration won't work for > > you, there really is no good reason to use "dangerously dedicated". > > If/when dangerously dedicated goes away, will there be special > provision for Zip and Jazz disks? Or, will we need to put an fdisk > style partition table on Zip and Jazz disks, then slice them with > disklabel? So we're going to be stuck with MS style partitions on machines that only run FreeBSD? I don't like this idea. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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