Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 13:04:01 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Ulrich Spoerlein <q@uni.de> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall's fdisk/disklabel should be improved Message-ID: <3F9C0C91.8070008@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20031026175852.GA770@galgenberg.net> References: <20031026175852.GA770@galgenberg.net>
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Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > Ok, this is perhaps pretty low priority to all of you (even to me), but > since I installed 2 new 5.1 systems this week I cursed sysinstall > several times! > > 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. Use "F" for "DD mode". This is different than "A" and will ask the question you expected. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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