From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 2 20:33:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bart.callnet0800.com (bart.callnet0800.com [212.67.128.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74BB737B423 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 20:33:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.4unet.co.uk [212.67.128.143] by bart.callnet0800.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id A726766E0144; Sun, 03 Sep 2000 04:36:06 +0100 Received: from James [212.67.147.253] by smtp.4unet.co.uk (SMTPD32-5.05) id A686299B00CA; Sun, 03 Sep 2000 04:33:26 +0100 Reply-To: From: "Thomas Beauchamp" To: "Siegbert Baude" , Subject: RE: 4.1-STABLE BOOT SLICE PROBLEM Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 04:33:23 +0100 Message-ID: <000101c01557$b6b001a0$0101a8c0@noproblem.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <39B1C4F0.2245693C@gmx.de> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Siegbert, Thank you for your comments. I wonder why this terminology trouble has not been ironed out yet, as if things were not confused enough ... Thomas -----Original Message----- From: coocoo@rz.uni-ulm.de [mailto:coocoo@rz.uni-ulm.de]On Behalf Of Siegbert Baude Sent: 03 September 2000 04:27 To: thomas@noproblem.net; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.1-STABLE BOOT SLICE PROBLEM Hi Thomas, > That's where I'm confused: I thought 'slice' was FreeBSD word for > 'fdisk/Microsoft partition'? You´re right Thomas. Chad´s statements were confusing. > That's even more confusing as I though that that 'fdisk partition' would be > called a 'slice' in FreeBSD jargon and that disklabel progam will create > what FreeBSD calls 'partitions' as in 'partition a' for root file system, > 'partition b' for swap space , etc ... Again you´re right. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message