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

[John-Mark Gurney]

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
I doubt OpenBoot on sparc hardware knows what to do.. so trying to
use generic information on how to partition a disk on all platforms
is bound to fail...  heck, you could put a bsdlabel on a disk that
goes into the sun, or any label for that matter now that we have
geom (I've succesfully read apple's label on sparc)..  it's more
of a question of making sure it boots...

Making a disk bootable is quit platform specific..

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