Michael Graff wrote:
> 
> You're describing FreeBSD's "slices" where each slice is a BIOS
> partition, I believe.
> 
> So, the notation would be sd0s3a for BSD partition a from "slice" 3...

Ya know, device names like that give me the screaming heevy-jeebies.
They're just not proper BSD. Is it just me?

Besides, I don't _ever_ want to have to muck about with BIOS partitions.
Let sysinst write a "fake" partition table into the MBR if none exists,
but keep it out of my sight. I've said it before and I'll say it again:

A disk should be a disk from sector 0 to sector n, just like on the
other ports.

Gunnar

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