On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >>> My semantics may be wrong on these two: what I'm talking about is
> >>> what is in handbook chapter 8 "Using command line utilities " gives
> >>> you a disk which doesn't boot.
> >>
> >>Ok; of those two examples, the first should give you a truly dedicated
> >>disk. (You can only generate a "dangerously dedicated" disk with
> >>sysinstall.)
>
> The first gives a vanilla dangerously dedicated disk (one with a historical
> bogus DOSpartition table of size 50000). Terminology for variants is less
> standard, e.g.:
>
> very dangerously dedicated:= dangerously dedicated with the DOSpartition
> table and/or boot signature zeroed or otherwise clobbered.
> undangerously dedicated:= dangerously dedicated with the DOSpartition table
> fixed to cover the whole disk (including the MBR). This is very easy
> to generate without sysinstall (just enter the start (0) and size for
> one partition in fdisk(8)).
I've been looking for that tidbit forever! If you can build up a sample
session, I'll docify it pronto. I don't have a disk to clobber or else
I'd be writing docs right now :)
Doug White
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