As Bruce Evans wrote:

> >	3) The first track as defined by DOG should be skipped.
>         ^ 4
> 
> This is too restrictive since it isn't compatible with using the whole
> disk for BSD.  (1)-(3) are probably sufficient for stopping foreign
> installation programs from deciding that the partition table is garbage
> and reinitializing it.

Apparently.  Except that somebody who wants to recycle a BSD disk has
to care to use ``fdisk /mbr'' in DOG, or to dd /dev/zero over the
first hundred or so sectors from within BSD..  Otherwise, DOG does
re-use the first sector of the BSD bootstrap, and only updates the
fdisk entries.  :-)

(At least some reason why we call it ``Dangerously dedicated.'')
-- 
cheers, J"org

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