On 27-Oct-00 Terry Lambert wrote:
>> 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...
Nope.
> 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.
Sysinstall can create a disklabel inside of a MBR slice fine. The
problem is that the disklabel(8) _program_ itself doesn't know how
to create a virgin disklabel for a MBR slice.
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