Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 09:44:00 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Jamil Taylor <jamil_taylor@pobox.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2-RC1 not (easily) bootable Message-ID: <20001119094400.A66448@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <3A1806EA.6E56BBDD@pobox.com>; from jamil_taylor@pobox.com on Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 11:59:22AM -0500 References: <3A17CDC1.7BFCA39B@eboa.com> <20001119083822.A39683@dragon.nuxi.com> <3A1806EA.6E56BBDD@pobox.com>
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On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 11:59:22AM -0500, Jamil Taylor wrote:
> What if you have multiple drives in your system?
Even more reason to use slices -- presumably at least one of the other
two have a M$ OS on it.
> Wouldn't "dangerously dedicated" yield more disk space for use?
Surely you can spare the 1MB or so using a proper MBR and slice table
would take away from you.
> No other operating systems use that drive, so I saw no reason not to
> make it dangerously dedicated.
But it is a good idea to mark the disk properly so M$ utils and things
like Partition Magic, System Commander, etc.. will know that disk
contains data.
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX
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