Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 02:50:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/29119: menu of fdisk editor in 4.3R does not list 'W'rite Message-ID: <200107290950.f6T9o3N19040@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/29119; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> Cc: wilko@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, joerg@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/29119: menu of fdisk editor in 4.3R does not list 'W'rite Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 11:48:22 +0200 On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 02:29:14AM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote: > wilko@freebsd.org writes: > > >Description: > > > > The FDISK Partition Editor of sysinstall does not display that > > it also supports 'W' for a forced write of the fdisk table. > > But it does.. And this is really practical in some circumstances > > (like installing 2x FreeBSD on the same disk; which needs > > fooling sysinstall by changing partition types) > > It does, but only when it isn't running as init. Joerg (cc'd) wrote > that part of the code, so maybe he can tell us why that is. OK, my observation was when running from CD. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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