From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 18 12:34:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA27685 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 18 Jan 1997 12:34:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA27679 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 1997 12:34:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA12396; Sat, 18 Jan 1997 13:20:28 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199701182020.NAA12396@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: FAQ Section 2.15... To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 13:20:27 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "J Wunsch" at Jan 17, 97 10:15:58 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > As Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > Please avoid confusing other users with your non-FreeBSD terminology. > > > > This is actually DOS terminology... > > No, it ain't. DOS has only one level of partitioning, we've got two. > the only terminology these people DISK | V DOS primary 1 -> DOS *partition* 3 -> BSD "partition" 1 -> a table 2 -> b 3 -> c 4 -> d 5 -> e 6 -> f 7 -> g 8 -> h 4 -> DOS extended 1 -> DOS *partition* 2 -> linux boot table 3 -> linux swap 4 -> linux user ^ ^ | | 1 2 *** SURPRISE! *** *** SURPRISE! *** *** SURPRISE! *** Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.