On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:

> If I'm not mistaken, FreeBSD has a different partitioning scheme.  They
> use "slices" 1-4 for the four partitions, and then "slices" 5 and above
> for extended partitions.  Have you considered that as an option, or is
> there some problems with that also ?  And I don't think they have any 8/16
> partitions limit.

	It may work well for i386, but how does it generalise to many
	other ports with no knowledge of MBR partitioning?

                David/absolute
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