8.0-RELEASE and "dangerously dedicated" disks

[Randi Harper]

> Did you see all the mailing list chatter about new installations
> failing due to sysinstall not being able to newfs device names that
> didn't exist? This is related. Also, a partition table isn't just a
> partition table. It's a little more complex than that. It has
> *nothing* to do with the filesystems inside. It has everything to do
> with the way that FreeBSD looks at the drive to figure out what's on
> it. See man pages for geom/gpart. There are others that have given a
> better explanation than I can provide (marcus, juli). Search the
> archives. Trust me, I didn't remove DD support from sysinstall just to
> make life more complicated for everyone. I did this because as it
> stands right now, it doesn't work.

Sigh, correction. marcel, not marcus.

-- randi