On 16-Apr-99 Christoph Franzen wrote:
>>> 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.
I never tried minlabel. Will check it out, Thanx!
The promlem actually was solved in a different manner; It appears
FreeBSD puts a DOS partition header at the front of the disk, even if
oyu tell it to dedicate the whole disk to BSD partitions. It does it
only on the i386. That makes FreeBSD i386 and FreeBSD Alpha
incompatible at the media level. I know.
My mistake was not knowing that and setting up disks on an i386 box for
consumption on an Alpha.
>
> Viele Gr��e, Christoph
>
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