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Date:      Fri, 06 Aug 1999 08:38:12 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: junior-hacker task: "prepdisk" 
Message-ID:  <3125.933921492@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Aug 1999 16:17:56 MDT." <199908052217.QAA12736@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <199908052217.QAA12736@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes:
>In message <19808.933517192@critter.freebsd.dk> Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
>: It seems that our new boot blocks doesn't like the taste of disks
>: prepared according to the meagre information we have in the handbook.
>
>How does this script differ from 'disklabel -w wd0 auto'?  It does do
>the fdisk stuff (your script, not the disklabel command).

It differs in that you can boot from the disk afterwards with my script,
you cant with disklabel -w wd0 auto.

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Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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