Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:13:35 -0500 (EST) From: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "dangerously dedicated" Message-ID: <14553.14207.194024.839781@onceler.kcilink.com> In-Reply-To: <200003222110.NAA01236@mass.cdrom.com> References: <14552.57732.739752.665443@onceler.kcilink.com> <200003222110.NAA01236@mass.cdrom.com>
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>>>>> "MS" == Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> writes: MS> Regardless of what you think, the only correct way to divvy up a disk on MS> a PC is to start with an MBR and work down from there. There is no other MS> way to do this properly, and to think otherwise merely demonstrates your MS> ignorance. Excuse me, but an MBR is not an FDISK label. I had a system that had BSD/OS instaled on it with no FDISK label and it worked just fine. Linux detected the disk and installed fine, as well. The only time I ever needed to have an FDISK label on a PeeCee was when trying to boot with a silly NCR scsi controller that demanded one. An empty one was fine. Tried to install FreeBSD on it and it just hung when probing for devices. I finally booted a freedos disk and ran it's fdisk program to put in an empty FDISK label. Then FreeBSD was able to use the disk. Who's demonstrating ignorance here? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 PGP & MIME spoken here http://www.kciLink.com/home/khera/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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