Subject: Re: Changing NetBSD's partition ID from 0xa5 (was: NetBSD and FreeBSD co-existing)
To: Darren Reed <darrenr@cyber.com.au>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/28/1997 12:10:16
Darren Reed writes:
> Forgive me if I'm asking a stupid question, but why does the partition
> ID for NetBSD need to change ?

It hasn't been decided to do this for sure, but the rationale is that
there are other operating systems out there (like FreeBSD) that use
the same partition ID, making it hard to co-exist with them on the
same drive for people who run both.

Perry