Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 21:05:10 -0800 From: Randi Harper <randi@freebsd.org> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: Maxim Khitrov <mkhitrov@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Peggy Wilkins <enlil65@gmail.com> Subject: Re: 8.0-RELEASE and "dangerously dedicated" disks Message-ID: <e277d6c80912012105o5571b530vb4f26c2e08462b03@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <e277d6c80912012034u4ba1a6fdj97d72f4605bb3e0c@mail.gmail.com> References: <1789c2360911280928t1e6e7b06p707abc1131f82bef@mail.gmail.com> <26ddd1750912010459weda306esbb81d7a2b7025b6e@mail.gmail.com> <20091201210321.GA39958@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <e277d6c80912012034u4ba1a6fdj97d72f4605bb3e0c@mail.gmail.com>
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> Did you see all the mailing list chatter about new installations > failing due to sysinstall not being able to newfs device names that > didn't exist? This is related. Also, a partition table isn't just a > partition table. It's a little more complex than that. It has > *nothing* to do with the filesystems inside. It has everything to do > with the way that FreeBSD looks at the drive to figure out what's on > it. See man pages for geom/gpart. There are others that have given a > better explanation than I can provide (marcus, juli). Search the > archives. Trust me, I didn't remove DD support from sysinstall just to > make life more complicated for everyone. I did this because as it > stands right now, it doesn't work. Sigh, correction. marcel, not marcus. -- randi
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