From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 26 10:04:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F57416A4B3 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2003 10:04:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta11.adelphia.net (mta11.adelphia.net [68.168.78.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C444643F85 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2003 10:04:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([68.68.113.33]) by mta11.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20031026180405.UBZD24677.mta11.adelphia.net@potentialtech.com>; Sun, 26 Oct 2003 13:04:05 -0500 Message-ID: <3F9C0C91.8070008@potentialtech.com> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 13:04:01 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031005 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ulrich Spoerlein References: <20031026175852.GA770@galgenberg.net> In-Reply-To: <20031026175852.GA770@galgenberg.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall's fdisk/disklabel should be improved X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 18:04:03 -0000 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