Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:14:18 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install chapter.sgml Message-ID: <20010829101417.N46201@clan.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <200108290209.f7T29CF43741@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 10:09:12PM -0400 References: <200108282333.f7SNX7J51519@freefall.freebsd.org> <200108290209.f7T29CF43741@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 10:09:12PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 16:33:07 -0700 (PDT), Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org> said: > > > disk, as I have always thought for the past seven years. Also note that > > the 'd' partition is no longer special, but that lots of software, > > including sysinstall, believes that it still is. > > Actually, sysinstall doesn't believe that `d' is special, it just > starts allocating partitions at `e'. If you create enough partitions > it will wrap back around. (Rather annoying but I can live with it.) It's the ..._DWIM() function in libdisk that's actually responsible for this, according to phk (he should know, he wrote it) :-) N -- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjuMsmkACgkQk6gHZCw343WfWwCfbspz4gxx6DZjzgJhV/8Ob3FE SysAmwa6Z05dLqW/5AeomOdpqCDZJyUw =VAGd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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