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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBsd in the press (Inforworld article) Date: 19 Apr 1996 07:09:57 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4l7e85$520@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4krhog$2ooq@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <3176B246.3BE4124A@lambert.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes: >] That's not fully correct, as many people noticed, the foundation work >] (libdisk) is there and is ready to work. It's used by sysinstall and >] works fine for it. > >Not true. > >There is no way libdisk can know the geometry of a new disk >such that you can use the BSD fdisk to create a BSD partition >and later go back with the DOS fdisk and create a DOS partition >on the same drive. Ah, that's been your point... Ok, as you know, the mapping between the BIOS geometries (as been passed from the bootstrap) and the BSD drivers is missing. Yep. However, that's usually only a problem for the boot disk, not for adding a second disk. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)