Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 23:57:52 +0200 (EET) From: "Andrew V. Stesin" <stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua> To: gfoster@gfoster.com (Glen Foster) Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Frustrated....doc@freebsd.org Message-ID: <199601232157.XAA06847@office.elvisti.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <199601231251.HAA12347@nomad.osmre.gov> from "Glen Foster" at Jan 23, 96 07:51:10 am
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Hello Glen and people, # Since the "visual fdisk" part of sysinstall is so much easier to use # than the CLI fdisk, why shouldn't the "visual disklabel" part of # sysinstall be the standard way to BSD partition a slice? I remember # that I did this once, perhaps with 2.0R, does it no longer work? I didn't tried a visual disklabel myself -- and old `disklabel -r -e sdXXX` was Ok for me. Generally (I repeat) I was simply afraid to see my existing filesystems there in it's list and didn't want to check for sure -- will it destroy them or not? :-)) # Also, if one does not have 'options gzip' in the kernel, is gunzip'ing # the sysinstall program and then running it a viable option? If so, I think "no", 'cause it's really a single overbloated binary which is linked to "everything". An addition: Dmitry Kohmanyuk <dk@dog.farm.org> pointed in his e-mail that in case your'e using your disk for FreeBSD _only_ (no other so called "OSes" on it :) you don't need fdisk at all, disklabel alone will be Ok; that's because it writes something appropriate to MBR sector itself. Dear Glen, in case you have a disk now to test all the info you got already, step by step, wouldn't you mind posting a summarized and tested (at least once) metodology to doc@freebsd.org? I hope it will be taken, reviewed and inserted somewhere by docwriters and FAQ maintainers. # # Glen Foster <gfoster@gfoster.com> # -- With best regards -- Andrew Stesin. +380 (44) 2760188 +380 (44) 2713457 +380 (44) 2713560 An undocumented feature is a coding error.
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