Subject: Re: Increased nr of partitions ?
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/06/2000 10:44:14 
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:42:32PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> 	I believe FreeBSD runs on recent alphas, which probably understand
> 	MBR partitioning - (I could be very wrong in that). It would be

Maybe, if they use the ARC console. But the SRM only understands
disklabel-style partitioning. So I guess FreeBSD/alpha uses a unix disklabel,
which they fake in a slice-style partitioning.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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