Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 18:57:53 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: Odd question.. ;-) Message-ID: <199601061757.SAA15281@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199601061611.DAA31297@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jan 7, 96 03:11:24 am
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As Bruce Evans wrote: > > The `dangerously dedicated' case should give a dummy fdisk table > identical to the one that `disklabel -B' writes, so `disklabel -B' > shouldn't affect the fdisk table. Yup, but this should (IMO) not be done by tweaking sysinstall/ libdisk to give up its current (correct) way, but rather by teaching disklabel to understand the fdisk table as a valuable part of the disklabel that must be retained when installing a new bootstrap. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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