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From: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul,,,)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Disklabel/newfs -
Message-ID: <1993Mar10.151955.4132@cm.cf.ac.uk>
Date: 10 Mar 93 15:19:53 GMT
References: <CGD.93Mar4205238@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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In article 93Mar4205238@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU, cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
> In article <1993Mar4.172411.28968@coe.montana.edu> osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:
> >I have had nothing but grief whenever my disktab doesn't have d and
> >c partitions defined. As soon as I defined them, voila'.
>
> "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".)
>
>
>
> chris
> --
> Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
>
> MENTALLY CONTAMINATED and proud of it!
I don't think a d partition is essential. In fact I don't have a d partition on either
of my disks.
Perhaps if you don't allocate the WHOLE disk to 386BSD then maybe you will need a d
partition but if all you've got is 386bsd then it doesn't seem to be necessary.
---
Paul Richards, University of Wales, College Cardiff
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