Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 16:56:39 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> Cc: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 umass.4 Message-ID: <20031019235639.GA81791@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20031019161325.GB56592@funkthat.com> References: <7842.1066492471@critter.freebsd.dk> <3F916974.5030502@acm.org> <20031018233459.GF42635@funkthat.com> <20031019152524.GB77230@dragon.nuxi.com> <20031019161325.GB56592@funkthat.com>
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On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 09:13:25AM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > see highlighted above... we don't just list BSD Unix thing in the > handbook.. it's suppose to include the full set of steps for all > platforms.. It is easy to add "for PeeCee platforms fdisk first". > > > Making a disk bootable is quit platform specific.. > > > > It doesn't need to be so wildly different. Honestly, what is the use in > > having two programs on two different platforms that are almost identical > > to "drive" doing the same functionality, yet having two different names? > > What is served by that? > > being able to label a sun disk on a x86... or an x86 disk on a sun > box.. What is served by having the utility that one uses BY DEFAULT on a platform to prepare a BOOTABLE SYSTEM DISK have two different names w/o an alias that one can use globally to do this. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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