From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 9 15:48:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gahch.it.ca (gahch.it.ca [216.126.86.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62E9F37B401 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 15:48:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from paul@localhost) by gahch.it.ca (8.11.5/8.11.1) id f89Mm7037251 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 18:48:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from paul) Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 18:48:07 -0400 From: Paul Chvostek To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: missing option "dangerously dedicated" in 4.3? Message-ID: <20010909184807.A25549@gahch.it.ca> References: <62180293@toto.iv> <15259.51294.322268.887470@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15259.51294.322268.887470@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 02:51:58PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Which begs the question ... why? Is "dangerous" dedication really all that dangerous? I have yet to find myself installing a second operating system on a partition on a disk that already has FreeBSD on it. The last time I actually *used* a boot manager was when I was using an NE2000 ISA Ethernet card whose configuration software ran in DOS. Even then, I eventually copied the config utilities to a floppy and turned the DOS partition into extra swap. What's so dangerous about not using DOS-style partitions? On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 02:51:58PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > From: Mike Meyer > Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 14:51:58 -0500 > To: "A. L. Meyers" > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: missing option "dangerously dedicated" in 4.3? > X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid > > A. L. Meyers types: > > Wanted to install 4.3 and make the disk "dangerously dedicated". > > In the partition screen I followed the instructions and pressed > > "A". This set 3 slices, the middle one being fbsd. The option to > > avoid dos compatibility as mentioned in the manuals and in the > > on line help F1 does not pop up. Using original Wind River 4.3 > > CD. > > > > I want dangerous dedication. How can I get it? > > This should be in the archives. It's undocumented, but use the "F" > key. > > -- > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Paul Chvostek Operations / Development / Abuse / Whatever vox: +1 416 598-0000 IT Canada http://www.it.ca/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message