From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 2 20:38:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bart.callnet0800.com (bart.callnet0800.com [212.67.128.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6393A37B43C for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 20:38:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.4unet.co.uk [212.67.128.143] by bart.callnet0800.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id A86B2E27013C; Sun, 03 Sep 2000 04:41:31 +0100 Received: from James [212.67.147.253] by smtp.4unet.co.uk (SMTPD32-5.05) id A7CB178100F0; Sun, 03 Sep 2000 04:38:51 +0100 Reply-To: From: "Thomas Beauchamp" To: Subject: FW: 4.1-STABLE BOOT SLICE PROBLEM Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 04:38:48 +0100 Message-ID: <000201c01558$78871d40$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 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@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-stable" in the body of the message