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From: taob@io.org (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and BSD/OS filessystems on IDE disks
Date: 10 Oct 1995 10:15:54 -0400
Organization: Internex Online (io.org) Data: 416-363-4151  Voice: 416-363-8676
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In article <4532ok$dot@times.tfs.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@mailhub.tfs.com> wrote:
>
>I don't have a BSD/OS machine handy
>Does anyone know if they subdivide the Fdisk parts with a disklabel,
>or whether they went the linux route and just use extended parts to do this?

    I didn't see anything fundamentally different during the disk
setup phase of installing BSD/OS, so I gather they also use a
disklabel and slice up a single fdisk partition into multiple
filesystems.  I will find out soon enough if FreeBSD can mount BSD/OS
partitions...
-- 
Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
System Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"