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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: junior-hacker task: "prepdisk"
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>> 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 :)

Make one using vnconfig(8) :-).

Bruce


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