From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 6 10:23:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA07378 for current-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 10:23:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA07362 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 10:23:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id TAA14208 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 19:22:51 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA17811 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 19:22:51 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id SAA15281 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 18:57:53 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601061757.SAA15281@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Odd question.. ;-) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 18:57:53 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601061611.DAA31297@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jan 7, 96 03:11:24 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)