paul@whooppee.com (Paul Goyette) writes:

>On the mac68k port, the "d" partition almost always ends up as the
>partition that holds the MacOS driver code, so it is basically unusable to
>NetBSD.  Thus, mac68k is also limited to six usable partitions per disk.

Strictly speaking, it's 7 usable partitions per disk.  Partition b isn't
magically reserved for swap.

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