>> 2. Either FreeBSD disklabel does something really ugly, or it puts
>> some DOSish junk on the disk, or it simply is not on good terms with
>> Linux fdisk; They do not see each other's partitions at all. I
>> tend to blame Linux fdisk because [...] Linux fdisk produces some
>> odd numbers. Looks like it is truncating data.
>> So, how do I install something useful that will not self-clobber in few
>> days?
JS> That's strange. The Linux disklabel program is compatible with Digital,
JS> err, Tru64 Unix so I wouldn't expect a problem with FreeBSD...
Did you try Minlabel? I use it to partition my Jensen, which seems to be even
more picky than most other SRM Systems. Fdisk doesn't properly recognize the
BSD-labeled partitions, but that's no problem.
Viele Gr��e, Christoph