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To: Steven Wallace <swallace@ece.uci.edu>
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Subject: Re: probs with latest stable snap 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 28 Oct 1995 11:03:01 PDT."
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Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 12:59:08 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> First, when installing, I tried to create two freebsd partitions on the
> same drive.  When it tried to format the partitions, I got
> "/dev/rsd0s1a: 'a' partition is unavailable"

DO NOT DO THAT.  I guess I'll have to make it an error to do so since
there are a lot of ways you can hose yourself if you do this (for one
thing, it will only boot from the first partition it finds).

					Jordan