Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 09:53:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Mark Turpin <mturpin@saturn.spel.com>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multia - Install success - 3.0-19981125-SNAP Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9812070951380.448-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <4750.912917526@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > P.S. Anyone know why the Alpha isn't permitting folks to use fully > qualified slice names in /etc/fstab? I read Mark's web page and was > just about to go "hey! that can't be right!" when I went to look at > beast and saw that it was also using the compatability slice, > presumably for good reason. WTF? Was I asleep in class that day? I > missed something.. :-) > Because there aren't any slices. All the alphas with SRM will be using 'dangerously' dedicated disks with *no* DOS MBR at all. Doesn't the compatibility slice just mean "the first MBR slice with code 165"? -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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