From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Sep 7 06:21:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA17745 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 06:21:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id GAA17740 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 06:20:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id PAA18411 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 15:20:55 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id PAA07889; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 15:15:48 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970907151548.GB33300@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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 References: <19970907111331.CE59835@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from David Nugent on Sep 8, 1997 00:00:09 +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)