Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 22:16:22 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: darrenr@cyber.com.au, etheisen@teclink.net, etheisen@ozzy, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, port-i386@NetBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Incompatible slices. Message-ID: <199602262116.WAA01165@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199602260832.TAA29001@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Feb 26, 96 07:32:31 pm
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As Bruce Evans wrote: > > 3) The first track as defined by DOG should be skipped. > ^ 4 > > This is too restrictive since it isn't compatible with using the whole > disk for BSD. (1)-(3) are probably sufficient for stopping foreign > installation programs from deciding that the partition table is garbage > and reinitializing it. Apparently. Except that somebody who wants to recycle a BSD disk has to care to use ``fdisk /mbr'' in DOG, or to dd /dev/zero over the first hundred or so sectors from within BSD.. Otherwise, DOG does re-use the first sector of the BSD bootstrap, and only updates the fdisk entries. :-) (At least some reason why we call it ``Dangerously dedicated.'') -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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