From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Dec 7 01:53:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA08707 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 01:53:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA08702 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 01:53:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA06295; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 09:53:29 GMT Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 09:53:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Mark Turpin , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multia - Install success - 3.0-19981125-SNAP In-Reply-To: <4750.912917526@zippy.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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