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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"?

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037



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