On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:09:52PM +0200, wojtek@3miasto.net wrote:
> > 
> > Yes, that's it.
> > The equivalent of /dev/device (e.g. /dev/hda) under linux is the
> > 'raw partition' under BSD. This is 'd' (e.g. /dev/sd0d) for i386 and
> > 'c' for all other ports.
> BTW. why i386 are "special" in that case?

Because of the 2 level partitioning sheme: MBR partition + BSD disklabel.
For i386, 'c' is the NetBSD partition in the MBR

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