Subject: Re: HOWTO: Install to local disk on a netbooted 4000/60?
To: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
From: None <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 07/16/2004 16:31:53
>
> > And at last, please don't confuse disklabel and fdisk, they edit two
> > very different tables:
> >
> > - The fdisk program modifies only the DOS MBR and exist (almost) only
> > on x86 machines.
> > - disklabel edits the BSD disk label which is used on all architectures
> > and specifies how the disk partitions are.
>
> Well, there are some "fdisk" programs out there that are capable of
> exiting not only DOS MBR like partition layouts. Eg. the fdisk that
> comes along with util-linux can also work on disklabels...
>
:-) Of course, I didn't mean the general case, I only meant NetBSD
where it is two (very different) programs. Mixing the terminology
when talking to people may cause unpredictable results :-)
Just FYI (unless you know that): Also on i386 the BSD partitions are
not mapped on DOS primary/secondary/extended/... partitions, it's a
separate entity. There may not even be a MBR on the disk.
-- Ragge