From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 25 19:26: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E200737B41D for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 19:25:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 51486 invoked by uid 100); 26 Jan 2002 03:25:53 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15442.8640.904013.970225@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 21:25:52 -0600 To: "Andrew Cowan" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question Regarding FDisk In-Reply-To: <23118739@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.44 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.4-STABLE-i386) 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 Andrew Cowan types: > I was installing 4.4 release for a friend last > weekend, and was trying to remember how to > create a 'dangerous dedicated' disk. Finally > worked out that the 'F' key did the job, but > then I studidly marked the partition as active > also. > My questions are: Why doesnt FDisk display the > 'F' key option? To keep people from creating DD disks unless they really need them and know what they are doing. DD disks can create unusual problems in some environments, and their use is discouraged except on systems that won't work on disks with a real DOS partition table. > and why does it allow a D.D. drive to be marked as active if it will > result in an unbootable drive? Because it can't know you aren't going to install something to boot the system. Marking the partition as active doesn't cause a problem. > Finally, I am not sure if this is how I created > D.D. Disks in the past. Why was this changed? To keep people from creating DD disks unless they really need them and know what they are doing. 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