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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!eng.ufl.edu!spool.mu.edu!sgiblab!pacbell.com!unet!blunt!dsilvia From: dsilvia@blunt.net.com () Subject: Re: Disklabel/newfs - Message-ID: <1993Mar5.152026.23758@unet.net.com> Sender: news@unet.net.com Nntp-Posting-Host: blunt Organization: Network Equipment Technologies References: <1993Mar4.062419.18727@oz.plymouth.edu> <1993Mar4.172411.28968@coe.montana.edu> <CGD.93Mar4205238@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 15:20:26 GMT Lines: 18 In article <CGD.93Mar4205238@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: >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".) > Has the installation (or, at least, the INSTALL.NOTES) been modified to do this? My installation from dist.fs only defined partitions a,b and c (with swap starting at offset 0), DOS is the first 20Meg. Dave S.