>     Thanks for the program.
> 
>     I think, however, that the proper solution is to make disklabel work
>     with slices.  We shouldn't need three programs to label a disk... 
>     if fdisk and disklabel can't do the job then our distribution is broken.
> 
>     I am going to spend some time researching the problem to see if I can 
>     come up with a 'disklabel' solution for labeling slices.  It would
>     also be nice if someone could figure out why our 'dangerously dedicated'
>     partition fails with some BIOSes ... it should be possible to fix it if
>     someone could track down what exactly is causing the divide-by-0 !

I think you are specifying the wrong arguments to disklabel; I
seem to rememebr a -w/-W distinction...

In any case, I'm running with a disklabel inside a DOS partition
on all but one box of mine, and always have been.  I installed
4.1 on my laptop that way.


                                        Terry Lambert
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