cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 umass.4

[John-Mark Gurney]

David O'Brien wrote this message on Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 08:25 -0700:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 04:34:59PM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> > Tim Kientzle wrote this message on Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 09:25 -0700:
> > >   * No such default name.  In that case, the docs could get
> > >     pretty ugly if we have to say things like "... after
							 ^^^^^
> > >     using fdisk, you need to label the disk with bsdlabel,
		^^^^^				       ^^^^^^^^
> > >     sunlabel, foolabel, or xyzlabel, depending on your platform
	  ^^^^^^^^
> > >     and disk-labelling preferences."  I'm not sure I want
> > >     to be the one who has to explain that one.
> > 
> > but if you try to fdisk a sun disk, it won't do you much good since
> 
> What does fdisk have to do with anything?  Fdisk is a PeeCee thing, not a
> BSD Unix thing.  disklabel is, and that is the level of things we are
> talking about here.

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..

> > geom (I've succesfully read apple's label on sparc)..  it's more
> > of a question of making sure it boots...
> 
> Sorry, I thought that went w/o saying.
>  
> > 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..

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