From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 26 20:47:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03BBB16A4C0 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2003 20:47:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F1EC43FBD for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2003 20:47:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h9R4lhhk063126; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 15:17:45 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Ulrich Spoerlein , current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 15:17:42 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <20031026175852.GA770@galgenberg.net> In-Reply-To: <20031026175852.GA770@galgenberg.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310271517.42256.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -4.4 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Subject: Re: Sysinstall's fdisk/disklabel should be improved X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 04:47:51 -0000 On Monday 27 October 2003 04:28, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > First of all, the Partition Editor has the 'A' option to use all of the > available HDD space. It creates a DOS-compatible slice (starting at > sector 63 and ending on cylinder boundary). This is completely useless > on servers and the help menu says that sysinstall will ask if it should > create a DOS-compatible slice or not. However no such question is ever > asked. Err.. What's wrong with it? Surely DOS compatible is fine?! The documentation is probably out of date, but it still works and partitions your disk just fine. (It partitions mine just fine for a huge variety of machines) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5