From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jul 21 14:13: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.osd.bsdi.com (zippy.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB59437C021 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:13:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA05203; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:14:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com) To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Dirk Kleinhesselink , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.1-20000719-RC#2 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:10:25 PDT." Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:14:02 -0700 Message-ID: <5200.964214042@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Is there an optimization in the installer to look for an existing UFS > filesystem to mount, as I said, *after* the terminal type question is asked > which is getting spoofed? Nope - the installer simply writes the MBR, the disk label and then goes off to newfs each filesystem in turn. It doesn't attempt to mount anything unless you explicitly tell it to do so or are doing an upgrade operation (which is sort of the same thing). - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message