In message <87vhhfry8b.fsf@jekyll.piermont.com>, "Perry E. Metzger" writes:
>seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) writes:
>> 1.  On systems with screwy geometry, I could make a small NetBSD partition
>> in the first 1024 cylinders of a disk's geometry, for /, so I could boot - a
>nd
>> then mount partitions from elsewhere on the disk.

>you can do that now. Aim BSD partitions of the disk label for the
>early MBR partition at chunks of the later MBR partitions. It will
>work.

>Long term, we need "slices" or something similar.

Yeah.  Or at least, support for 16 partitions.  :)

Mostly, though, slices are what I want, because I want automatic inheritance
of the BSD label of the other partition.

-s