Subject: Re: my friends' install...
To: None <explorer@flame.org>
From: Phil Nelson <phil@steelhead.cs.wwu.edu>
List: tech-install
Date: 09/18/1998 15:38:31
>Perhaps, but I think it will create more down the road...
>
>PeeCees live in a BIOS world, with disklabels and such. I sorta think
>we need to use them...
I'm betting that it won't work on the machines I plan to test it on.
In fact, iirc, I already tried it before and the standard way
disklabel did it when I was using the entire disk did not work.
I can't guarantee it, but I bet the BIOS refused to load the boot
program. That is the reason sysinst ALWAYS skips the first cylinder
of the BIOS geometry.
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Phil Nelson
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