Would now be a good point for this to be proposed for all other
	8 partition ports (change pending portmaster approval of course)

		David/absolute		-- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --


On 2 Jan 2001, Matthias Scheler wrote:

> 	Hello,
>
> NetBSD's i386 port supports upto 16 partitions per disk now. Before you
> can use this you have to update your complete source, rebuild kernel
> and userland and invoke the latest "src/etc/etc.i386/MAKEDEV" in
> "/dev" to create the additional device nodes. As long as you don't
> use more than 8 partition per disk you should be able to downgrade
> to an ealier NetBSD version without any problems.
>
> 	Kind regards
>
>