From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 9 10:28:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from math.udel.edu (math.udel.edu [128.175.16.7]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCF43408F for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 10:28:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from math.udel.edu (sisyphus.math.udel.edu [128.175.16.167]) by math.udel.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA22150; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 13:28:08 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38A1B1B8.56042F38@math.udel.edu> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 13:28:08 -0500 From: Peter Schwenk Organization: University of Delaware X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en, fr, de, ko MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc Wandschneider Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "dangerously dedicated" References: <000101bf7328$89cad240$0300000a@katana> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It means it will not make a Microsoft compatible partition table on the drive and just use a BSD type disklabel. This precludes installing other operating systems on the drive. Marc Wandschneider wrote: > blaugh! > > so, i've got FreeBSD 3.3 on a couple of machines, and i've got it taking up > ALL of the SCSI disks on this system. This creates a "Dangerously > Dedicated" warning ... what exactly does this mean? Should I worry about > it? I don't plan on installing anything else, and if I do end up doing so, > I'll just low-level the disks... > > marc. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- PETER SCHWENK | UNIX System Administrator Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Delaware schwenk@math.udel.edu | (302)831-0437 <-NEW!!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message