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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!caen!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!rit!isc-newsserver!psinntp!psinntp!uuneo!sugar!peter 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 Message-ID: <C3MwC4.ALy@sugar.neosoft.com> References: <C3J9FL.4vJ@BitBlocks.com> <C3KKLq.1vH@sugar.neosoft.com> <C3Lyuz.A4y@BitBlocks.com> Lines: 16 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>. `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tänään? 'U` Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä.