Subject: Re: NetBSD and FreeBSD co-existing
To: Chuck Cranor <chuck@dworkin.wustl.edu>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/23/1997 13:23:59
Chuck Cranor writes:
> 	i believe life would be easier for multi-BSD os people if 
> netbsd choose a new fdisk ID number to use.   for example, the openbsd
> i386 boot process first looks for a "166" partition, and if it can't 
> find a 166 fdisk partition then it falls back to 165 (for backwards
> compat.)

Is there a registry of these things, or at least a list of which ones
are unused these days?

Perry