From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Feb 21 18:33:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED43110FBC for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 18:33:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from mips.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id DAA10061 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 03:33:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: by mips.rhein-neckar.de id m10EjKB-000WydC (Debian Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #2); Mon, 22 Feb 1999 01:34:15 +0100 (CET) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 22 Feb 1999 01:34:12 +0100 Message-ID: <7aq8m4$tpa$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> References: <7af7uh$dnb$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Heck, even I haven't figured out how disklabel(8) fits into that mess. > I'd be curious to hear what your use of the word "even" is based on. That "even" is based on my arrogant assumption that I'm not the most bleeding newbie any more. Of course you may disagree. > I don't find disklabel particularly difficult to understand. The way I understand the concept and the man page, disklabel read/ writes/edits the partition table of a dedicated disk or a slice, respectively. But then, disklabel also serves to install a bootstrap. On a sliced disk, it obviously needs to automagically install something outside the FreeBSD slice, because the BIOS is not going to boot from a BSD partition. So disklabel is working both on the inside and somehow on the outside of the FreeBSD slice. That's not very transparent to me. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de See another pointless homepage at . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message