On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, David Brownlee wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
> 
> > If I'm not mistaken, FreeBSD has a different partitioning scheme.  They
> > use "slices" 1-4 for the four partitions, and then "slices" 5 and above
> > for extended partitions.  Have you considered that as an option, or is
> > there some problems with that also ?  And I don't think they have any 8/16
> > partitions limit.
> 
> 	It may work well for i386, but how does it generalise to many
> 	other ports with no knowledge of MBR partitioning?

I must admit my ignorance.  But, I thought that FreeBSD runs on other
architectures than just i386, and so (naively) thought that they might be
using the same scheme for them also.  How does FreeBSD handle this in case
of non-i386 architectures ?  Same as NetBSD ?

Rakhesh