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From: veit@borneo.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: Disklabel/newfs -
Message-ID: <1993Mar8.143714.17792@gmd.de>
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References: <1993Mar4.062419.18727@oz.plymouth.edu> <1993Mar4.172411.28968@coe.montana.edu> <CGD.93Mar4205238@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <1ndg8b$ej0@wzv.win.tue.nl>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 14:37:14 GMT
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In article <1ndg8b$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
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