Subject: Re: How to mount msdos logical disks, or EXT DOS partition?
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Wenchi Liao <wliao@midway.uchicago.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/16/1999 14:27:55
"Patrick Welche" wrote:
>Richard PLOIX wrote:
>> 
>> fdisk sd1
>>    NetBSD geometry cyl 7637 head 8 sect/track 274 (2192 s/tr)
>> partiton table
>>    0 sysid 15 (Ext. partition LBA)
>>       start 16065 size 16755795 (8181MB) flag 0x0
>>    1 sysid 169 (NetBSD)
>>       start 14991088 size 1749216 (854MB) flag 0x0
>>    2<UNUSED>
>>    3<UNUSED>
>
>That means the first entry starts at 16065, and ends at 16771860, so how
>can the second entry start at 14991088<16771860 ? The two entries overlap!

How does netbsd deal with extended partitions? My recollection
is fuzzy, but I though netbsd's fdisk doesn't even seen the
extended partitions.

WL