Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 09:47:17 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure Message-ID: <199611250847.JAA16092@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199611250055.QAA00883@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at "Nov 24, 96 04:55:11 pm"
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As Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > If you run a third party fdisk program on the disk, then the disk isn't > > dedicated. > > Dedicating one drive, does not mean dedicating all drives, Microsoft's > install procedures are known for there ``I want the whole world'' phylosophy > and can cause people great pain if installed with on another disk in > the same systems as one of the FreeBSD ``bogus'' partitioned disks. That's why you should never (really: never) use DD mode on such drives. That's what sysinstall tells you, too. Perhaps you should really run it at least once. ;-) You can dedicate drives with valid partition tables if you want. DD mode has been invented solely for those who _simply don't care_ for any other system in this machine. They have been pissed off by the smarter libdisk-based sysinstall in 2.0.5 (since they now had to care for all that geometry crap they didn't need to care for previously in FreeBSD -- remember the recommendation to install a 1 MB DOS partition first... it was a sad joke). -- 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. ;-)
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