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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!festival!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: 2.0 Alpha Notes Message-ID: <CzKorx.C42@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <mmitchel.27.2ECCD346@alb.asctmd.com> <3akshr$mot@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 1994 15:38:20 GMT Lines: 21 I haven't tried the newFreeBSD installation, but one annoying feature in all previous *BSD 386 installations has been this incredibly uninformative warning message from disklabel: overwriting disk with DOS partition table? (n): There are several reasons why this message might occur, and disklabel should tell you which one it is (for example, if you have a BSD partition but it doesn't have a C partition, you get this message, and loose your MBR if you say "yes"). Please fix this to say *exactly* why it's happening and what the consequence of saying "yes" is. -- Richard -- Satan himself, in a sermon preached from the pulpit of North Berwick church, comforted his many servants by assuring them that no harm could befall them "sa lang as their hair wes on, an sould newir latt ane teir fall fra thair ene". - J G Frazer, The Golden Bough