Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 12:18:56 +1000 From: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSd Chat list) Subject: Re: I will sue FreeBSD project (..attempt at a joke..) Message-ID: <199707070218.MAA03690@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 06 Jul 1997 18:47:11 %2B0200." <19970706184711.RL39115@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: > Perhaps people now understand why i love the ``dangerously dedicated'' > mode... it doesn't care much for anything like a ``geometry''. I use it exclusively, and have very few problems other than idiot OS's on other disks on the same machine that occasionally find something to complain about (there's only one system this affects anyway, which happens to have OS/2 and DOS on the first drive in a chain of 4). I've not had a great deal of luck with booteasy drives. I'm not sure why, but never bothered much to find out either - if I install FreeBSD, it is the entire disk or nothing. I guess others don't have that luxury, but the majority of machines I install are dedicated 24/7 servers anyway. I read a post by you some weeks back which mentioned that a DD'd drive doesn't need to have fdisk run on it - just disklabel. In theory, I found you were right - only I couldn't stop the kernel complaining about the lack of an fdisk magic number even though I had disklabel'ed and newfs'ed, so I ended up having to use fdisk just to shut it up. :-) Perhaps I missed some step somewhere. Regards, David -- David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/
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