Dangerously dedicated?

[Emiel Kollof]

* Brooks Davis (brooks at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:03:01PM +0100, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> > Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> > > Mine laptop has been running in DD mode for a few years.  P2-266.  
> > 
> > But what's the point?  I don't see any advantage to DD mode, and I think 
> > FreeBSD removed it from the sysinstall menus quite a while ago.
> 
> It's still there, it's just deliberately hard to find.

Not hard to find, just not defaultly done, and AFAICR a big fat warning
still appears if you do try DD mode.

Why was DD actually implemented anyway?

Cheers,
Emiel
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