Hi,

> I'm starting to suspect that I'm just Not Allowed to use wd0d for anything,
> am I?  No matter what disklabel shows for it, it always looks like it's
> giving me "the raw disk".

While it's correct that [ws]d0d is special on the i386, [ws]d0c is not.
So you could have used wd0c for your fat partition.

And yes, I agree that we should go to more partitions.  There even were
several discussions about it last month on tech-kern (IIRC).

Ciao,
Wolfgang
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