Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 08:57:37 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: jdl@jdl.com (Jon Loeliger) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.1.0 Install went smoothly! Message-ID: <199511300757.IAA18756@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199511282256.QAA13681@chrome.jdl.com> from "Jon Loeliger" at Nov 28, 95 04:56:24 pm
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As Jon Loeliger wrote: > > - I wasn't sure what a "normal partition" was to be compatible with > other OSes on a disk after I hit "A" for a total disk layout. What > was I doing before when I selected "A"? [Did that English right? :-] Provide us with a better wording. :-) My first text was even more disleading, this is Jordan's version. The point is, that people who are selecting the ``dangerously dedicated'' option (assign the entire disk from 0 to the very last sector to FreeBSD) are likely to shoot in their foot if they are going to install a BIOS-int13-using system (like MezzDos) after installing FreeBSD. (My colleague did it these days, installed DOS on a machine that has been used as a FreeBSD demo at a fair -- it didn't boot. fdisk /mbr did the trick then.) OTOH, people who are really sure that the machine is not about to see anything else than FreeBSD in this life should be encouraged to use the non-default option, in particular all those with SCSI disks. They get in return to never ever worry again about the term ``geometry''. Geometry, geometry, what's this? :-) -- 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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