Subject: Re: HP Vectra
To: None <phil@cs.wwu.edu, parnoux@orli.com>
From: Wolfgang Solfrank <ws@kurt.tools.de>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/24/1997 13:09:51
> I am somewhat under the impression that fdisk is a rather DOS centric concept
> and is not a needful thing for any other port but for the 386. Forcing its
> use might not be such a good idea. And of course, disklabel in its present
> incarnation will only create a DOS partition table if one is not already defined.

Hmm, at least powerpc machines conforming to PReP or CHRP/PPCP are required to
at least support the fdisk partitioning scheme.  And if you want to run
multiple OSs on such machines, you are more or less required to use it.
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