On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:58:52PM +0100, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > 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.
It is NOT useless. Why do you think it is? Perhaps you don't relize that some BIOS's wont boot from a hard disk that isn't partitioned to agree with the specifications of the PeeCee. If you want to treat your PC as a Sun, don't -- buy a Sun, FreeBSD runs on that too. > Ok, then the solution would be to drop to a shell and run fdisk by hand. > However there is no fdisk/disklabel/newfs in that shell. Even 'ls' is > not found. Running the LiveCD will give you a working fdisk/disklabel > but the man-pages are not useable (manpath.config can't be found). You're going to a lot of trouble just to "save" %1 of the "available" disk space... _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
