Sysinstall's fdisk/disklabel should be improved

[Bill Moran]

Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> Ok, this is perhaps pretty low priority to all of you (even to me), but
> since I installed 2 new 5.1 systems this week I cursed sysinstall
> several times!
> 
> First of all, the Partition Editor has the 'A' option to use all of the
> available HDD space. It creates a DOS-compatible slice (starting at
> sector 63 and ending on cylinder boundary). This is completely useless
> on servers and the help menu says that sysinstall will ask if it should
> create a DOS-compatible slice or not. However no such question is ever
> asked.

Use "F" for "DD mode".  This is different than "A" and will ask the
question you expected.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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