From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 9 00:27:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA14370 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 00:27:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [192.35.17.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA14361 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 00:27:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de) Received: from salomon.mchp.siemens.de (salomon.siemens.de [139.23.33.13]) by david.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA03229 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 08:27:05 +0100 (MET) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (at relayer david.siemens.de) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (daemon@curry.mchp.siemens.de [146.180.31.23]) by salomon.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA20919 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 09:27:08 +0200 (MDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA09706 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 09:27:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Andre Albsmeier Message-Id: <199804090727.JAA07708@intern> Subject: Re: How to make a non-dangerously dedicated disk? In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Apr 9, 98 00:19:27 am" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 09:27:06 +0200 (CEST) Cc: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. 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