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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Disklabel help needed
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 18:21:38 GMT
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References: <C3J9FL.4vJ@BitBlocks.com> <C3KKLq.1vH@sugar.neosoft.com> <C3Lyuz.A4y@BitBlocks.com>
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In article <C3Lyuz.A4y@BitBlocks.com> bvs@BitBlocks.com (Bakul Shah) writes:
> Yes, you can define a small partition at the beginning of the
> disk but then your swap partition is not the *first* partition
> (it is second or later)!

That's the point, of course, but that's only part of what I was getting at.

The other part of my comment was that it would be desirable to make this
a standard part of the system installation, so tools that want to play
with the bootstrap can have a fixed, known partition to work with rather
than having to know that wd0a or wd0b or whatever is first.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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