From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 22 13:13:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from kci.kciLink.com (kci.kciLink.com [204.117.82.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9311737B5C4; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:13:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from khera@kciLink.com) Received: from onceler.kcilink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [204.117.82.2]) by kci.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51E5DE896; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:13:35 -0500 (EST) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kcilink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA29364; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:13:35 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from khera@kci.kcilink.com) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14553.14207.194024.839781@onceler.kcilink.com> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:13:35 -0500 (EST) To: Mike Smith Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "dangerously dedicated" In-Reply-To: <200003222110.NAA01236@mass.cdrom.com> References: <14552.57732.739752.665443@onceler.kcilink.com> <200003222110.NAA01236@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 8) "Bryce Canyon" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "MS" == Mike Smith writes: MS> Regardless of what you think, the only correct way to divvy up a disk on MS> a PC is to start with an MBR and work down from there. There is no other MS> way to do this properly, and to think otherwise merely demonstrates your MS> ignorance. Excuse me, but an MBR is not an FDISK label. I had a system that had BSD/OS instaled on it with no FDISK label and it worked just fine. Linux detected the disk and installed fine, as well. The only time I ever needed to have an FDISK label on a PeeCee was when trying to boot with a silly NCR scsi controller that demanded one. An empty one was fine. Tried to install FreeBSD on it and it just hung when probing for devices. I finally booted a freedos disk and ran it's fdisk program to put in an empty FDISK label. Then FreeBSD was able to use the disk. Who's demonstrating ignorance here? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 PGP & MIME spoken here http://www.kciLink.com/home/khera/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message