Subject: Re: Newbie question
To: None <tksuoran@cc.helsinki.fi>
From: Mike Long <mikel@shore.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/05/1997 12:52:34
>Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 19:15:28 +0300 (EET DST)
>From: Timo K Suoranta <tksuoran@cc.helsinki.fi>

> I also noticed
>that OpenBSD disklabels support 16 partitions, and they are compatible
>with NetBSD - if one uses 8 or less. Could we get 16 partitions to NetBSD
>as well?

This is nontrivial to do, because of the way i386 disk drivers (or was
it just wd?) allocate minor numbers.
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