Subject: Re: Is this a new disk problem?
To: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@fb.sa.enteract.com>
From: Dr. Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/08/1998 08:39:58
On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> Why can't we have a disklabel in the NetBSD partition, the way the i386
> port does? That system is very flexible. You can craft partitions outside
> of the NetBSD partition, if you like, and it still coughs up a
> pseudo-label if there is no real one. In the past, we haven't seemed to
> need it as much as they do. DOS-like systems are limited to four
> "physical" partitions, but we can have (seven or) eight. That's more than
> enough for say, a 1G disk, but it starts to be restrictive with larger
> drives.

What I'd think is cool is we just add a seperate MacOS partition which has
the disk label. It doesn't need to show up in the NetBSD disklabel, so we
don't need to loose a letter, and we can save it.

Take care,

Bill