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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!svin09.info.win.tue.nl!wzv.win.tue.nl!gvr.win.tue.nl!guido From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Disklabel/newfs - Message-ID: <1ndg8b$ej0@wzv.win.tue.nl> Date: 7 Mar 93 18:51:55 GMT References: <1993Mar4.062419.18727@oz.plymouth.edu> <1993Mar4.172411.28968@coe.montana.edu> <CGD.93Mar4205238@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 25 NNTP-Posting-Host: gvr.win.tue.nl cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: >"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".) I disklabel'ed my quantum 120 meg drive with 20 megs of dos with only the c, and not the d, parttition. Indeed the c is the whole diskpart for 386bsd. I've never had problems without that d partition. Not with 0.0 and not with 0.1. Also my second disk, which is completely used for 386BSD has no d partition, but just c. >chris >-- >Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu > MENTALLY CONTAMINATED and proud of it! -- Guido van Rooij | Internet: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl Bisschopsmolen 16 | Phone: ++31.40.461433 5612 DS Eindhoven | ((12+144+20)+3*sqrt(4))/7 The Netherlands | +(5*11)=9^2+0