Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 15:07:08 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dos and Don'ts Message-ID: <19981006150708.32072@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <19981006174328.65315@follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 05:43:28PM %2B0200 References: <19981006071237.02443@follo.net> <19981006155341.C27781@freebie.lemis.com> <19981006083809.00946@follo.net> <19981006173417.64829@welearn.com.au> <19981006174328.65315@follo.net>
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On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 05:43:28PM +0200, Eivind Eklund woke me up to tell me: > DO use 'dangerously dedicated' mode if you're only going to have > FreeBSD on the machine. There are a number of problems that > can occur with DOS slices; the FreeBSD disklabel is immune to > this. (Don't need to change if your system is already > working, however.) I'm not sure if that's a good idea. Notably with those lovely Providence dual PPro motherboards (tho I'm sure elsewhere too), the SCSI controller wouldn't boot a dangerously dedicated partition. I guess it really did need a fdisk table, or something. I've never had any problems with DOS slices; what were you referring to? *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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