From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 30 00:31:58 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA07804 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 00:31:58 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA07499 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 00:27:11 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA28486; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 09:20:51 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA14401; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 09:20:50 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id IAA18756; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 08:57:37 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511300757.IAA18756@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 2.1.0 Install went smoothly! To: jdl@jdl.com (Jon Loeliger) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 08:57:37 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199511282256.QAA13681@chrome.jdl.com> from "Jon Loeliger" at Nov 28, 95 04:56:24 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1265 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jon Loeliger wrote: > > - I wasn't sure what a "normal partition" was to be compatible with > other OSes on a disk after I hit "A" for a total disk layout. What > was I doing before when I selected "A"? [Did that English right? :-] Provide us with a better wording. :-) My first text was even more disleading, this is Jordan's version. The point is, that people who are selecting the ``dangerously dedicated'' option (assign the entire disk from 0 to the very last sector to FreeBSD) are likely to shoot in their foot if they are going to install a BIOS-int13-using system (like MezzDos) after installing FreeBSD. (My colleague did it these days, installed DOS on a machine that has been used as a FreeBSD demo at a fair -- it didn't boot. fdisk /mbr did the trick then.) OTOH, people who are really sure that the machine is not about to see anything else than FreeBSD in this life should be encouraged to use the non-default option, in particular all those with SCSI disks. They get in return to never ever worry again about the term ``geometry''. Geometry, geometry, what's this? :-) -- 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. ;-)