From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 13 06:00:50 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA05644 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 06:00:50 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id FAA05532 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 05:59:13 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA25384; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 14:58:44 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id OAA00418 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 14:58:43 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA10440 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 15:14:33 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199507121314.PAA10440@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: A problem with disklabel & "use entire disk" on 2.0.5R. To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 15:14:33 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199507120808.BAA17549@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Jul 12, 95 01:08:29 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1344 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > Be carefull with doing that, DOS 6.22 install is not very friendly about > partition tables that are incorrect and will kindly fdisk/format your > FreeBSD right into oblivia with 2 taps of enter after booting the > install disk :-(. ... > Please, valid and correct partition tables are _critical_ to making > sure Microslop code does not wipe you out!!! You've missed my point, Rod: i'm speaking about those of us who don't even bother to think of ``Kleinstweich'' and who don't think about the machine being a PeeCee but a `real machine'. Those guys (and there are many) are never going to give MessDos a chance to see the disk, but are somewhat upset to be forced thinking within those braindead categories they'd rather not like to think at all -- that's why they've chosen FreeBSD. I don't ask for this being a default, but a valid option for those who know about the potential problems. I've got about a dozen computers in my reach that will fall into this category. (And even if i'd going to sell a used disk so that the partition table contents might become important, i'd dd if=/dev/zero a reasonable amount of sectors on the disk before giving it away.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)