Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 20:39:19 +0200 From: "Dimitry Andric" <dim@xs4all.nl> To: "Alfred Perlstein" <bright@wintelcom.net>, d_f0rce@gmx.de Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Dangerously Dedicated" setting in 4.3-R install Message-ID: <200104302039190911.0118E86D@tensor.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20010430023201.W18676@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20892.988622448@www36.gmx.net> <20010430023201.W18676@fw.wintelcom.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2001-04-30 at 02:32 Alfred Perlstein wrote: >Too many people shooting themselves in the feet. It also >stuck those people with systems where certain boot tricks >were no longer possible. Okay, this is reasonable, and since the undocumented key "F" is still mentioned at the end of the help text, anybody who actually _reads_ the information (heh! :-) will still be able to do it. But then the first part of the sysinstall help text would also need to be updated. It now says: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D If you want to use the entire disk for FreeBSD, type `A'. You'll be asked whether or not you wish to keep the disk (potentially) compatible with other operating systems, i.e. the information in the FDISK table should be kept valid. If you select the default of `Yes', slices will be aligned to fictitious cylinder boundaries and space will be reserved in front of the FreeBSD slice for a [future] possible boot manager. For the truly dedicated disk case, you can select `No' at the compatibility prompt. In that case, all BIOS geometry considerations will no longer be in effect and you can safely ignore any ``The detected geometry is invalid'' warning messages you may later see. It is also not necessary in this case to set a slice bootable or install an MBR boot manager as both things are then irrelevant. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Since this "dangerously dedicated" question is no longer asked, these paragraphs should be removed entirely, or else moved to the end, where the "F" key is explained. As an aside: for almost all machines that exclusively run FreeBSD, I always use the dedicated case, so that I can use partition names like "ad0a", "ad0e", ... instead of "ad0s1a", "ad0s1e", ... Is there any chance that the first naming scheme might disappear in the future? Cheers, - -- Dimitry Andric <dim@xs4all.nl> PGP key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~dim/dim.asc KeyID: 4096/1024-0x2E2096A3 Fingerprint: 7AB4 62D2 CE35 FC6D 4239 4FCD B05E A30A 2E20 96A3 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Encrypted with PGP Plugin for Calypso Comment: http://www.gn.apc.org/duncan/stoa_cover.htm iQA/AwUBOu2jQrBeowouIJajEQIf5wCcCDCwykJ9+0rwQvK1TRhFbZ0idjAAoNbs 8JPuirrHIjpy05ZaEQjJV44f =3DahIi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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