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Subject: sysinstall and fdisk/disklabel..
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From: chris@aepnet.com (chris reaume)
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all the discussion of changing defaults for disklabel made me think of 
something..  would it be possible to detect if the beginning of the root 
partition was past (or near) the 1024 cylinder boundary?  took me a while 
last time to figure out I just needed to "boot0cfg -B -o packet da0"..  see, 
it's my bad habit of putting swap partitions first on disk, as someone once 
told me that was faster (like I said, just a habit now)..  well, this was 
always fine until I did it on the server at work with 512 mb of ram, never 
thinking once of the cylinder boundary issues..  anway, just an idea, 
dunno what the insides of fdisk or disklabel look like, so I have no idea 
how feasable it is, but anyway..

thanks,
   chris

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