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Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 12:18:56 +1000
From: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
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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

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