On Sunday, June 16, 2002, at 08:10 AM, Hauke Fath wrote:

> At 21:04 Uhr -0500 15.6.2002, Bob Nestor wrote:
>> On Saturday, June 15, 2002, at 04:54 PM, Hauke Fath wrote:
>>
>>>> The "d" partition isn't used by NetBSD for ffs parts since it is the
>>>> RAW_PART on other ports.  The mac68k port uses "c" as the RAW_PART. I
>>>> think this was a change that was made after 1.3 when the disksubr 
>>>> code
>>>> was cleaned up and rewritten.  I seem to recall that "d" was usable 
>>>> in
>>>> the mac68k port prior to that change.
>>>
>>> You've got that backwards:
>>
>> If I create a disk with an HFS, root, swap and two usr ffs partitions
>> they show up on 'g' and 'e' after rebooting, not on 'g' and 'd'.  This
>> is with a 1.6-Beta1 system.
>>
>> I agree if 'd' were enabled it they should show up on 'g' and 'd' as
>> they did on 1.3.
>
> Well, I assure you I did not play any dirty tricks to get /var on 
> 'd'.  ;)

No, but your comments got me thinking last nite.  I think the approach 
that worked for me on 1.3 doesn't work right now and I found some 
additional problems this morning. I've been able to reproduce the 
problem Frederick mentioned yesterday, so I'm working on a new approach.

-bob