[rescue] OpenBSD

Gregory Leblanc gleblanc at linuxweasel.com
Mon Jan 28 16:16:11 CST 2002


On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 18:03, George Adkins wrote:
> On Sunday 27 January 2002 08:17 pm, you wrote:
> > On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, George Adkins wrote:
> > > I'm _PISSED_OFF_ that the jackasses seem to have removed the "Dedicated
> > > Disk" option from the installer...  I have to start all my 4.4 installs
> > > with a 4.2 disk to keep it from putting that crappy 64 sector empty
> > > space in front of the root slice
> >
> > Yeah, I noticed that when I installed 4.5-RC1 from FTP about a week ago.
> > Surely this wasn't taken out by popular demand...
> 
> No FSCKing kidding.
> 
> I was always annoyed at the old nag message, something about "are you sure 
> you don't want a true partition table..." or some such crap.
> What I really want IS a true partition table.
> Without any of this FDISK slice crap.  I don't give a flying $hit about DOS 
> compatibility.  Screw that.  I wand an SD0, as in /dev/sd0...  not some hokey 
> linux-looking /dev/ad0s1a garbage.  almost as if they were trying to make it 

Uh, dunno what you're smoking this morning George, but that doesn't look
anything like any device name I've seen on linux.  I've got
/dev/sd[a,b,c,d,e] on my linux machine.  That looks a lot like the
Solaris format, only not quite there...
	Greg


> look like Solaris' c0t0d0s0...

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