Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:29:03 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <dev-null@nuxi.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall's fdisk/disklabel should be improved Message-ID: <20031029072903.GA56958@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20031026175852.GA770@galgenberg.net> References: <20031026175852.GA770@galgenberg.net>
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On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:58:52PM +0100, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > First of all, the Partition Editor has the 'A' option to use all of the > available HDD space. It creates a DOS-compatible slice (starting at > sector 63 and ending on cylinder boundary). This is completely useless > on servers and the help menu says that sysinstall will ask if it should > create a DOS-compatible slice or not. However no such question is ever > asked. It is NOT useless. Why do you think it is? Perhaps you don't relize that some BIOS's wont boot from a hard disk that isn't partitioned to agree with the specifications of the PeeCee. If you want to treat your PC as a Sun, don't -- buy a Sun, FreeBSD runs on that too. > Ok, then the solution would be to drop to a shell and run fdisk by hand. > However there is no fdisk/disklabel/newfs in that shell. Even 'ls' is > not found. Running the LiveCD will give you a working fdisk/disklabel > but the man-pages are not useable (manpath.config can't be found). You're going to a lot of trouble just to "save" %1 of the "available" disk space...
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