Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 09:27:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to make a non-dangerously dedicated disk? Message-ID: <199804090727.JAA07708@intern> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980409001853.13615i-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from Doug White at "Apr 9, 98 00:19:27 am"
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> 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. OK, i feared so :-(. Is there a description of the algorithm that sysinstall uses to determine the parameters? Maybe one day when I have spare time (== almost never) I try to make a standalone tool... Thanks, -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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