Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 16:54:07 -0800 (PST) From: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-BETA install report, minor problems. Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970109165119.11087K-100000@mail.cdsnet.net> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970109214315.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > > 2) The box I was installing on had BSD/OS installed on it. For whatever > > BSD/OS uses a totally `weird' bootstrap if used in dedicated mode > (withouth an fdisk table). This is something like our `dangerously > dedicated' mode, and BSDi should probably warn about its dangers as > well. You just felt it... I submit that if I'm selecting that FreeBSD use the entire disk, and I insiste that it use the entire disk this way, and "Yes, I don't want to be compatible with any type of OS co-existence", that then the exhibited behaviour is a bug. Maybe freebsd needs to zero the disklabel or something itself. I know Alpha's under Digital UNIX had a -z option to disklabel to zero it out. There should be a way to zero out the partition table as well. BSD/OS does warn about the dangers, but since I'm not co-existing, I'm replacing, then I think our stuff should be able to handle it.
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