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Date:      Sun, 3 Sep 2000 04:38:48 +0100
From:      "Thomas Beauchamp" <thomas@noproblem.net>
To:        <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   FW: 4.1-STABLE BOOT SLICE PROBLEM
Message-ID:  <000201c01558$78871d40$0101a8c0@noproblem.net>

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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.




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