From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 9 00:20:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA12105 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 00:20:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA12095 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 00:20:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA13859; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 00:19:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 00:19:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Andre Albsmeier cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to make a non-dangerously dedicated disk? In-Reply-To: <199804090530.HAA06282@intern> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > As the subject says: I want to create a non-dangerously dedicated disk > but without using sysinstall. The reason is, I want to make an exact > copy of the present system (2.2.6) but can't use the dangerously dedicated > mode because the new disk will go into another broken Siemens PC. It's a pain in the arse since our fdisk utility bites. You _really_ want to use sysinstall for this, the visual fdisk editor is miles beyond any other tool. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message