Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 05:43:49 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, j@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, hsu@clinet.fi Subject: Re: bin/984 Message-ID: <199602091843.FAA20758@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> > > first place, or whaddaya think why i've been inventing the >> > > ``dangerously dedicated'' mode? :) >> >> For ideological reasons. >Not only. :) I've got too many complaints from industry users and >other people running dedicated FreeBSD systems. Describing them that >they first had to install something called DOS didn't make a good >impression... and was not necessary. It has never been necessary. Just tell the BIOS which geometry to use and remember what you told it, or boot with -v to get the geometry, or use fdisk to set up one slice covering the whole disk, or use disklabel to set up an empty disk. Brucehome | help
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