AFAIK the danger is that someone boots the machine with an
installer for some other OS, and that installer treats the
disk as unformatted -- hence obviously containing nothing
important -- because it doesn't have a recognizable MBR.
some people rarely boot other OS :)
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 11:28:32PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dangerous is probably overstating the issue a bit ...
AFAIK the danger is that someone boots the machine with an
installer for some other OS, and that installer treats the
disk as unformatted -- hence obviously containing
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 09:16:00AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
AFAIK the danger is that someone boots the machine with an
installer for some other OS, and that installer treats the
disk as unformatted -- hence obviously containing nothing
important -- because it doesn't have a
Dangerous is probably overstating the issue a bit ...
AFAIK the danger is that someone boots the machine with an
installer for some other OS, and that installer treats the
disk as unformatted -- hence obviously containing nothing
important -- because it doesn't have a recognizable MBR.
On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 20:55 -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
Da Rock writes:
Excuse my nose in here- I just have a couple of questions.
1) It IS possible to boot from a dedicated disk?
Yes. Can't remember the last time I used anything else.
So you've never booted from a disk that
Da Rock writes:
Excuse my nose in here- I just have a couple of questions.
1) It IS possible to boot from a dedicated disk?
Yes. Can't remember the last time I used anything else.
So you've never booted from a disk that has been partitioned as a file
system?
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:47:23AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 11:39 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:17:40AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:56:44 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche [EMAIL
PROTECTED] wrote:
If FreeBSD is to put
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 12:57:45PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 20:55 -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
Da Rock writes:
Excuse my nose in here- I just have a couple of questions.
1) It IS possible to boot from a dedicated disk?
Yes. Can't remember the last
I have never booted a FreeBSD system from a disk which
contained any other operating system.
I have only used dangerously dadicated mode for FreeBSD,
except when sysinstall made selecting/implementing that too much
work.
almost like me except i don't use sysinstall, and manually
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 10:49 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 12:57:45PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 20:55 -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
Da Rock writes:
Excuse my nose in here- I just have a couple of questions.
1) It IS possible to
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 11:39 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:17:40AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:56:44 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
If FreeBSD is to put on the system as only operating system (Fdisk:
A = Use Entire
Da Rock writes:
Excuse my nose in here- I just have a couple of questions.
1) It IS possible to boot from a dedicated disk?
Yes. Can't remember the last time I used anything else.
2) Does using dedicated mode increase the space available to use?
Partitioning normally takes
ad0a (/), ad0b (swap), ad0d (/var) etc... correct or not (then what)?
You're mixing terminology here. :-) The use entire disk will
create a slice for FreeBSD covering the complete disk. A slice
is what MICROS~1 calls primary partition.
Now the conclusion: Let's say you create a slice on ad0,
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Polytropon wrote:
ad0 |---| the whole disk
ad0s1 \--/ one slice
ad0s1X \--/\---/\-/\-/\---/\/ partitions
a b d e f g
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:56:44 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
If FreeBSD is to put on the system as only operating system (Fdisk:
A = Use Entire disk), then will the BSD-partitions will show up as
ad0a (/), ad0b (swap), ad0d (/var) etc... correct or not (then what)?
You're
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:53:23AM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote:
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Polytropon wrote:
ad0 |---| the whole disk
ad0s1 \--/ one slice
ad0s1X
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:17:40AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:56:44 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
If FreeBSD is to put on the system as only operating system (Fdisk:
A = Use Entire disk), then will the BSD-partitions will show up as
ad0a (/),
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:53:23 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I know / is the root partition, but /root is the home-directory of
the user root (/etc/passwd: root:*:0:0:Charlie :/root:/bin/csh).
I doubt this will ever be needed to be large?
There is no special advice about
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