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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Disklabel/newfs -
Date: 4 Mar 93 20:52:38
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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Message-ID: <CGD.93Mar4205238@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
References: <1993Mar4.062419.18727@oz.plymouth.edu> <1993Mar4.172411.28968@coe.montana.edu>
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In-reply-to: osyjm@cs.montana.edu's message of 4 Mar 93 17:24:11 GMT
In article <1993Mar4.172411.28968@coe.montana.edu> osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:
>I have had nothing but grief whenever my disktab doesn't have d and
>c partitions defined. As soon as I defined them, voila'.
"normal" bsd stuff uses the c partition to access the "whole disk" --
disklabel needs this.
386bsd also (<thwack!>) needs a d partition, something to do with DOS
stuff... (i guess "d" is supposed to be the "whole disk" and "c"
is "the whole part of the disk allocated to 386bsd".)
chris
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