Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 00:00:09 +1100 From: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall disks.c Message-ID: <E0x7gwk-0003xt-00@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Sep 1997 11:13:31 %2B0200." <19970907111331.CE59835@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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[from committers] > Hehe. :-) I have been urged by the core-team to add such a message > back when i proposed DD mode. ;-) Of course, it never killed me, but > i know about the dangers... The worst is that some Award BIOS doesn't > accept such a disk as a valid disk at all. :-(( Just in case someone is collecting this information ... OS/2's FDISK command (which I use on my first two disks since I use its excellent boot manager) won't touch a DD's partition table at all. You can't remove the "partitions" in it (it says it does, but it doesn't), can't create new ones, can't do a damn thing. If a DD's disk is in the system and it sees it, it also complains "no primary partition" on exiting regardless of not having touched that disk, but this is just a benign warning. I consider not being able to edit the "paritition table" a feature. :-) OTOH, DOS fdisk will quite happily work with it, so at least it can rewrite the table so that the OS/2 fdisk will then work. This is the only way to you can reuse a previously dd'ed disk for OS/2 (other than a low level format or "dd if=/dev/zero" directly over the boot blocks of course). Regards, David
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