Subject: Re: Using partitions and better package selection/installation
To: Srinivasa Kanduru <ksraghavan@yahoo.com>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 01/04/2004 18:55:18
> Sysinst recognizes all the filesystems, but when I boot the regular kernel I
> couldn't see a way of mounting those partitions.
> 
>  a:          0       2047  d  Linux native            Linux
>  b:       2047       2047   I NetBSD (/)              NetBSD
>  c:       4094       2048 a   FreeBSD/386BSD (/)      FreeBSD
>  d:       6142      70174     Extended partition
>  e:       6142      10236     NetBSD
>  f:      16378      10237     NetBSD
>  g:      26615      10237     FreeBSD/386BSD (/disk)
>  h:      36852      10236     FreeBSD/386BSD
>  i:      47088      10237     Linux native
>  j:      57325      10237     Linux native
>  k:      67562       7985     Linux native

I think it is the sysinst MBR editing menu - so the letters on the LHS are
for menu selection and not partition letters.

(Also the netbsd root filesystem need not be partition 'a'.
It must, however, start at the beginning of the bootable MBR partition.)

The netbsd-current kernel will generate a default netbsd disklabel
that contains all the extended partitions (wd0i and upwards), this
may (aka should) be preserved by sysinst.
However if there is an old netbsd label the information on it will
be preserved, and the MBR partition information discarded.
(This might be sub-optiomal)

	David

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