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From: wraith@cinenet.net (Robert Gorichanaz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Q:FBSD2.1 and Slices ?!?
Date: 3 Sep 1995 04:43:47 GMT
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It would appear that with the 2.1 install program and fdisk utility that 
I do not have as much control over the physical layout of my disk as I 
had with previous versions. (or, maybe I'm just blind.)

What I'd like to do is the following:

	slice 1: dos, 200Mb
	slice 2: NT,  400Mb
	slice 3: reserved for Plan 9, 200Mb
	slice 4: FreeBSD, 1.5Gb

I seem to remember with 2.0 and earlier, that I could edit the flags for 
the slices (virtual disks, physical partitions, whatever...) under BSD 
and create a "fake" dos partition.

Is there any way to do this now?

btw - existing layout is: slice 1: dos, 500Mb; slice 4: BSD, 1.7Gb


-bob