From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 3 6:23:13 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 A4CD137B424 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 06:23:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.4unet.co.uk [212.67.128.143] by bart.callnet0800.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id A155EE9E0078; Sun, 03 Sep 2000 14:25:41 +0100 Received: from James [212.67.147.121] by smtp.4unet.co.uk (SMTPD32-5.05) id A0ADAA101F6; Sun, 03 Sep 2000 14:22:53 +0100 Reply-To: From: "Thomas Beauchamp" To: Cc: , , , Subject: RE: 4.1-STABLE BOOT SLICE PROBLEM Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 14:22:48 +0100 Message-ID: <000f01c015aa$0df5a580$0101a8c0@noproblem.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <39B21FAB.FCA3C0CA@polytechnic.edu.na> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----Original Message----- From: tim@www.noproblem.net [mailto:tim@www.noproblem.net]On Behalf Of Tim Priebe Sent: 03 September 2000 10:54 To: thomas@noproblem.net Cc: chad@DCFinc.com; cjclark@alum.mit.edu; JDBitters@cs.com; freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.1-STABLE BOOT SLICE PROBLEM It works! ^_^ Thomas Beauchamp wrote: > > Hi! > > My understanding is: > > a 'slice', in FreeBSD lingo is a 'Microsoft's partition', of which you can > only have FOUR (past the MBR and partition table). > FreeBSD partitions exist on a Microsoft slice, and you can have up to 8 > FreeBSD partitions per slice. > So a 'dangerously dedicated disk', having nothing to do with Microsoft, has > essentially no slice, just partitions. Am I right? > > But I find it confusing that FreeBSD uses the 's' of slice in its naming > terminology : '/dev/da0s1a' for instance, whilst other versions of BSD omit > the 'slice information' and would call the root file system '/dev/da0a' > instead. I understand that FreeBSD support this terminology too > ('compatibility slice naming'), but it's all confusing for me: when > Microsoft 'partitions' are not there AT ALL (as it is the case in a > 'dangerously dedicated disk'), why then use the term 'slice'? Actually you can have multiple slices on a dangerously dedicated disk. Try the following: do a dangerously dedicated install onto a small disk. then do a dd to copy the small disk to a bigger one. boot off the new disk and run sysinstall. Go into Fdisk, you will see that there is free space. Create a new slice, and then lable it, and create a file system. Worked fine for me when I tested it to see what would happen. Tim. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message