Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 09:54:29 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, bob@obiwan.pmr.com, paul@isl.cf.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Proper procedure to partition/label disk now? Message-ID: <199504051554.JAA11044@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> "Re: Proper procedure to partition/label disk now?" (Apr 6, 12:52am)
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> >Well, I mentioned this before and there was silence but I want to rewrite > >the MBR and bootblocks when 2.1 installs itself so we can fix all the > >bogus MBR's out there and also update the partition tables to the > >new standard. > > >There's technically no reason why it can't be done but people do get very > >uptight when you mess with these things. > > The problem is converting backwards (to 1.1.5...) and sideways (to NetBSD > ...). Why do we want to do that? We never claimed we could move backwards to other OS's. Nate
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