Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 15:15:48 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall disks.c Message-ID: <19970907151548.GB33300@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <E0x7gwk-0003xt-00@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>; from David Nugent on Sep 8, 1997 00:00:09 %2B1100 References: <19970907111331.CE59835@uriah.heep.sax.de> <E0x7gwk-0003xt-00@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
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As David Nugent wrote: (OS/2's fdisk) > I consider not being able to edit the "paritition table" a feature. :-) Well, i think Winlose .95 is the worst sucker here. IIRC, it deletes the BSD bootstrap without a whisper, and without asking or telling you. I'm currently writing up a FAQ entry, and will put a general warning there about the things you should be aware of with a DD disk. I think OS/2 marks the one end, Win.95 the other (worst) end. > 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). fdisk /mbr doesn't work? I thought it would. -- 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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