On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 09:16:00AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >
> >AFAIK the "danger" is that someone boots the machine with an
> >installer for some other OS, and that installer treats the
> >disk as unformatted -- hence "obviously" containing nothing
> >important -- because it doesn't have
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 11:28:32PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Dangerous is probably overstating the issue a bit ...
>
> AFAIK the "danger" is that someone boots the machine with an
> installer for some other OS, and that installer treats the
> disk as unformatted -- hence "obviously" con
AFAIK the "danger" is that someone boots the machine with an
installer for some other OS, and that installer treats the
disk as unformatted -- hence "obviously" containing nothing
important -- because it doesn't have a recognizable MBR.
some people rarely boot other OS :)
__
> Dangerous is probably overstating the issue a bit ...
AFAIK the "danger" is that someone boots the machine with an
installer for some other OS, and that installer treats the
disk as unformatted -- hence "obviously" containing nothing
important -- because it doesn't have a recognizable MBR.
_
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 03:58:23AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 10:49 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 12:57:45PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 20:55 -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
> > > > Da Rock writes:
> > > >
> > > > > Exc
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 10:49 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 12:57:45PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
>
> >
> > On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 20:55 -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
> > > Da Rock writes:
> > >
> > > > Excuse my nose in here- I just have a couple of questions.
> > > >
> > > >
I have never booted a FreeBSD system from a disk which
contained any other operating system.
I have only used "dangerously dadicated" mode for FreeBSD,
except when sysinstall made selecting/implementing that too much
work.
almost like me except i don't use sysinstall, and manually
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 12:57:45PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 20:55 -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
> > Da Rock writes:
> >
> > > Excuse my nose in here- I just have a couple of questions.
> > >
> > > 1) It IS possible to boot from a dedicated disk?
> >
> > Yes. Can't re
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:47:23AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
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> On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 11:39 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:17:40AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:56:44 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche <[EMAIL
> > > PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > If Fr
Da Rock writes:
> > > Excuse my nose in here- I just have a couple of questions.
> > >
> > > 1) It IS possible to boot from a dedicated disk?
> >
> >Yes. Can't remember the last time I used anything else.
>
> So you've never booted from a disk that has been partitioned as a file
On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 20:55 -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
> Da Rock writes:
>
> > Excuse my nose in here- I just have a couple of questions.
> >
> > 1) It IS possible to boot from a dedicated disk?
>
> Yes. Can't remember the last time I used anything else.
So you've never booted from a
Da Rock writes:
> Excuse my nose in here- I just have a couple of questions.
>
> 1) It IS possible to boot from a dedicated disk?
Yes. Can't remember the last time I used anything else.
> 2) Does using dedicated mode increase the space available to use?
> Partitioning normally ta
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 11:39 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:17:40AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:56:44 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > > If FreeBSD is to put on the system as only operating system (Fdisk:
> > > "A
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:53:23 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I know / is the "root partition", but /root is the home-directory of
> the user root (/etc/passwd: root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh).
> I doubt this will ever be needed to be large?
There is no special advice
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:17:40AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:56:44 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > If FreeBSD is to put on the system as only operating system (Fdisk:
> > "A = Use Entire disk"), then will the BSD-partitions will show up as
> > ad
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:53:23AM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Polytropon wrote:
>
> > ad0 |---| the whole disk
> > ad0s1 \--/ one slice
> >ad0s1X \--/\---/\-/\-/\---/\--
ad0a (/), ad0b (swap), ad0d (/var) etc... correct or not (then what)?
You're mixing terminology here. :-) The "use entire disk" will
create a slice for FreeBSD covering the complete disk. A slice
is what MICROS~1 calls "primary partition".
Now the conclusion: Let's say you create a slice on ad0
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Polytropon wrote:
ad0 |---| the whole disk
ad0s1 \--/ one slice
ad0s1X \--/\---/\-/\-/\---/\/ partitions
a b d e f g
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:56:44 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> If FreeBSD is to put on the system as only operating system (Fdisk:
> "A = Use Entire disk"), then will the BSD-partitions will show up as
> ad0a (/), ad0b (swap), ad0d (/var) etc... correct or not (then what)?
Yo
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