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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!usenet.hana.nm.kr!jagalchi.cc.pusan.ac.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!news.dacom.co.kr!newsrelay.netins.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!narses.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Differences between wd0* and wd0s?* Date: 8 Mar 1996 09:17:32 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4hotvc$kvp@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4h75m7$71e@galileo.polito.it> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 cavassa@csp.it (Lorenzo Cavassa) writes: > someone can explain me the difference between dd wd0(a,b,f,e) and > wd0s1(a,b,f,e). The second one is the ``sliced'' notation, refering to the first slice (fdisk partition #1) on the disk. The first notation is the ``compatibility slice'', this is the one the bootstrap will find, and is identical with the first entry in the fdisk table that has a 0xa5 signature. (You may have more than one of them, but can only boot the one that is first in the fdisk table.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)