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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
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Date: Sun, 20 Nov 1994 15:38:20 GMT
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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