Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 08:46:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr Subject: Re: Geometry weirdness with sysinstall/libdisk Message-ID: <199710020846.BAA25188@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19971002084852.PP26017@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Oct 2, 97 08:48:52 am
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> These are partitions, not slices. You ought to learn the difference > by now... In case you haven't: Slices are what DOS 'fdisk' calls partitions, and partitions are what SunOS 'disklabel' calls slices. Yes, we *are* bass-akwards from the rest of the world... lump it until the distinction becomes irrelevant. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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