On 30-Oct-00 David O'Brien wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 01:10:56PM +0200, Robert Nordier wrote:
>> Just doing the disklabel -w -r followed by the disklabel -B is creating
>> a dangerously dedicated disk, 
> 
> Actually this is a "fully dedicated" disk.  (made to look like a 50MB or
> so disk to M$ products)
> Sysinstall is used to create a "dangeriously dedicated" disk (when not
> create slices.
> 
> Yep, on the i386 we actually have three kinds of disklables.

Actually, no, just two. :(  I did some more checking later on a few
months ago and found that 'disklabel auto' == 'dangerously dedicated'
mode.

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