From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 14 21:17:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.cybersurf.net (smtp1.cybersurf.net [209.197.145.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B984E37B413 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 21:17:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 3web.net ([209.197.185.113]) by smtp1.cybersurf.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GJORWB00.TGX for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 22:17:00 -0600 Received: by 3web.net (EzMTS MTSAgent 1.22b Service) ; Fri, 14 Sep 01 22:17:14 -0600 for Received: from 3web.net (127.0.0.1) by 3web.net (EzMTS MTSSmtp 1.50 Service) ; Fri, 14 Sep 01 19:15:23 -0600 for Received: by mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 14 Sep 2001 19:15:07 +4200 Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 19:15:05 -0600 From: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> To: Salvo Bartolotta Cc: Freebsd Questions Subject: Re: i dont unsterstand the disk label maker Message-ID: <20010914191504.A244025@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca> Mail-Followup-To: Salvo Bartolotta , Freebsd Questions References: <1000491799.3ba24b176d163@webmail.neomedia.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <1000491799.3ba24b176d163@webmail.neomedia.it>; from "Salvo Bartolotta" on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 08:23:19PM X-Envelope-Receiver: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 08:23:19PM +0200, Salvo Bartolotta wrote: > > By the way, in all the books/documentation I have been RTFMing^Wreading so > > far, a Unix slice is defined as a BIOS/DOS-[like/style] partition. More > > precisely, it is one of the four entries in the partition table contained in > > the MBR (64 bytes, starting at byte 446). > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > My apologies. My description was obscure and wrong. Humility is a great and precious blessing.... So.... what's the bottom line? What would be a complete recap of this thread that the clueless of clueless would understand? Then perhaps what comes out of this thread should go into a FAQ? -- -duke Calgary, Alberta, Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message