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Date:      Sat, 6 Jan 1996 18:57:53 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: Odd question.. ;-)
Message-ID:  <199601061757.SAA15281@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199601061611.DAA31297@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jan 7, 96 03:11:24 am

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As Bruce Evans wrote:
> 
> The `dangerously dedicated' case should give a dummy fdisk table
> identical to the one that `disklabel -B' writes, so `disklabel -B'
> shouldn't affect the fdisk table.

Yup, but this should (IMO) not be done by tweaking sysinstall/ libdisk
to give up its current (correct) way, but rather by teaching disklabel
to understand the fdisk table as a valuable part of the disklabel that
must be retained when installing a new bootstrap.

-- 
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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