From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 12 21:31:19 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA22709 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 21:31:19 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA22686 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 21:31:16 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA14221; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 06:31:14 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id GAA20099 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 06:31:13 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id GAA06476 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 06:16:21 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506130416.GAA06476@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Extended DOS partition support? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 06:16:21 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199506130217.TAA03660@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Jun 12, 95 07:17:37 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 864 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Amancio Hasty wrote: > > I am curious where is this slice stuff documented. At least, there are notes in sysinstalls help files. I've translated them into German, that's why i know of them. :-) > On my system, which I suped and "make world" on saturday. > MAKEDEV does not create a /dev/wd0s5 so I created one. When I tried > mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s5 , the system claims that the device is not > configured. Fine, so I went down the list till /dev/wd0s1 which seems to work > on my system over here. It's impossible to MAKEDEV all possible slices on all possible controllers (and all possible BSD partition letters on all poss... you get the picture). Bruce can certainly shade a light on the other problem. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)