From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 2 10: 2:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6F081519F for ; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 10:02:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA76468; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 10:02:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 10:02:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Bruce Evans Cc: mike@smith.net.au, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: junior-hacker task: "prepdisk" In-Reply-To: <199908021637.CAA08098@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Bruce Evans wrote: > >>> My semantics may be wrong on these two: what I'm talking about is > >>> what is in handbook chapter 8 "Using command line utilities " gives > >>> you a disk which doesn't boot. > >> > >>Ok; of those two examples, the first should give you a truly dedicated > >>disk. (You can only generate a "dangerously dedicated" disk with > >>sysinstall.) > > The first gives a vanilla dangerously dedicated disk (one with a historical > bogus DOSpartition table of size 50000). Terminology for variants is less > standard, e.g.: > > very dangerously dedicated:= dangerously dedicated with the DOSpartition > table and/or boot signature zeroed or otherwise clobbered. > undangerously dedicated:= dangerously dedicated with the DOSpartition table > fixed to cover the whole disk (including the MBR). This is very easy > to generate without sysinstall (just enter the start (0) and size for > one partition in fdisk(8)). I've been looking for that tidbit forever! If you can build up a sample session, I'll docify it pronto. I don't have a disk to clobber or else I'd be writing docs right now :) Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message