On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Martijn van Buul wrote:
> So my plan is to make the root filesystem (Say, 128MB or so) sit at
> the begin of the disk, and the rest at the end. However, I've noticed
> that NetBSD doesn't really understand having more than one slice.
>
> Will things go terribly wrong if I just create a small partition at
> the begin of the disk, and craft a disklabel in it with partitions
> pointing to somewhere at the end of the disk? The installer won't like
> this, ofcourse, but that's the least of my worries...

That will work fine.  Nothing in NetBSD/i386 (except perhaps the
installer) tries to prevent disklabel partitions from being outside the
range covered by the fdisk partition.

--apb (Alan Barrett)