2006/2/24, Zbigniew Baniewski <zb@ispid.com.pl>:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 08:41:23AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
> > my opinion is that on an i386 one should use the fdisk partition table =
to
> > make life easier.
>
> My problem was, that I wanted to have 3 OS-es on the disk: FreeDOS, Linux
> (together with swap it makes 2 more partitions), and NetBSD.
>
> Yes, I was able to use disklabel - although I can't understand the
> benefits(?) of such additional complication. What for? Just because a lon=
g
> time ago in such way it was made on the PDP-11?

Because it works on ALL supported architectures; fdisk is ONLY x86/amd64.

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>                                 pozdrawiam / regards
>
>                                                 Zbigniew Baniewski
>