> NetBSD wants only one "slice" - or more accurately, it doesn't
> much care about slices at all - the DOS label is used only for
> booting and locating the NetBSD label, after that, slices are
> essentially irrelevant.
> 
> If the only think on your drive is to be NetBSD, then just use
> the "disc is dedicated to NetBSD" option in sysinst, and do without
> tye nonsense DOS partitioning completely.
> 
> As for cyl limits, you will want your root partition ('a') in the
> first 1024 cyls of the drive, if the system is old enough that it
> doesn't use LBA addressing (as the bios sees it), that's all that
> matters.
> 
> Note that this is quite different from FreeBSD.   Don't try and
> create more than one NetBSD slice, it won't work properly at all.
> The NetBSD label (the one disklabel manipulates) will allow you to
> reference anywhere on the drive, regardless of what the DOS label
> claims belongs to NetBSD.   So if you have space on the drive not inside
> your NetBSD slice, you can just reference it from the BSD label.
> 


thanks thats what i needed to know.

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gruesse 

joerg "joerch" buechner

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