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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!gmd.de!borneo!veit From: veit@borneo.gmd.de (Holger Veit) Subject: Re: Disklabel/newfs - Message-ID: <1993Mar8.143714.17792@gmd.de> Sender: veit@borneo (Holger Veit) Nntp-Posting-Host: borneo Organization: GMD - German National Research Center for Computer Science References: <1993Mar4.062419.18727@oz.plymouth.edu> <1993Mar4.172411.28968@coe.montana.edu> <CGD.93Mar4205238@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <1ndg8b$ej0@wzv.win.tue.nl> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 14:37:14 GMT Lines: 24 In article <1ndg8b$ej0@wzv.win.tue.nl>, guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) writes: |> cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: |> |> >"normal" bsd stuff uses the c partition to access the "whole disk" -- |> >disklabel needs this. |> |> 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. You might need one with pcfs. Holger |> Guido van Rooij | Internet: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl -- Dr. Holger Veit | INTERNET: Holger.Veit@gmd.de | | / GMD-SET German National Research | Phone: (+49) 2241 14 2448 |__| / Center for Computer Science | Fax: (+49) 2241 14 2342 | | / P.O. Box 13 16 | Three lines Signature space | |/ Schloss Birlinghoven | available for rent. Nearly DW-5205 St. Augustin, Germany | unused, good conditions