From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Feb 26 13:21:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA17583 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 13:21:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA17569 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 13:21:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA11946; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 22:20:47 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA21456; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 22:20:25 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id WAA01165; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 22:16:22 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602262116.WAA01165@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Incompatible slices. To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 22:16:22 +0100 (MET) Cc: darrenr@cyber.com.au, etheisen@teclink.net, etheisen@ozzy, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, port-i386@NetBSD.ORG Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199602260832.TAA29001@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Feb 26, 96 07:32:31 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)