Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:20:10 -0700 From: Freddie Cash <fcash@bigfoot.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Regarding hw.ata.wc="1"...... Message-ID: <01072409201000.00548@darkside.lab.sd73.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: <20010724110853.A5479@mikea.ath.cx> References: <3B5D94E7.4680ACEF@mitre.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107240845420.92951-100000@snafu.adept.org> <20010724110853.A5479@mikea.ath.cx>
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On July 24, 2001 09:08 am, you wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:53:02AM -0700, Mike Hoskins wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Jason Andresen wrote:
> > > A sysinstall prompt would be nice though. An even nicer option
> > > would be a little menu on the diskLabel part of the install that
> > > asks what options you want to enable on the filesystem when you
> > > create it (softupdates, etc...).
> > Not a bad idea... should be much easier to implement since
> > softupdates became more 'standard' (no more licensing issues). :)
> There is now an option in sysinstall's disk label editor to turn
> softupdates on. This is on a machine cvsupped on July 7 this
> year. I don't know when the option showed up.
It's been there since at lesat 4.3R, and I'm pretty sure I remember=20
seeing it in 4.2R.
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Cheers,
Freddie
fcash@bigfoot.com
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