Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:13:49 -0500 (CDT) From: "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu> To: "Bond, Jeffery" <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk> Cc: "'Ladavac Marino'" <mladavac@metropolitan.at>, "'FreeBSD questions'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Partitioning the disk for FreeBSD Message-ID: <199906101513.KAA46478@beowulf.utmb.edu> In-Reply-To: <DD2AB7991BC6D211988E00A024AC583B5DFA09@exchange.nectech.co.uk> References: <DD2AB7991BC6D211988E00A024AC583B5DFA09@exchange.nectech.co.uk>
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Well I _could_ say Unix was there first! ;-) I agree that this is
confusing to {DOS,Windows,Linux}-heads. Blame IBM for screwing up
the nomenclature with the introduction of the XT.
This whole "problem" is a consequence of the "multiple operating
systems on one hard disk" capability plus converging incompatible
nomenclature schemes. If we had to set up a separate hard disk
for every OS we wanted to run, the PC boot procedure would
probably look a whole lot more like that of a Sun or (pick your
own favorite commercial Unix vendor).
Bud Dodson
Bond, Jeffery writes:
> Hi Marino
>
> Yes, same as DOS, Windows, Linux, but I agree that that the disklabel
> 'partitions' are partitions in the UNIX world. It is still confusing though,
> and I don't know a way around it really. It's just a shame that what DOS,
> windows and Linux users call a 'partition', we call a 'slice'.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeff
>
>
[elided]
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M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu
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