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Date:      Mon, 07 Dec 1998 15:57:21 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Mark Turpin <mturpin@saturn.spel.com>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Multia - Install success - 3.0-19981125-SNAP 
Message-ID:  <199812072357.PAA00922@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Dec 1998 09:53:29 GMT." <Pine.BSF.4.01.9812070951380.448-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> 

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> On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > P.S.  Anyone know why the Alpha isn't permitting folks to use fully
> > qualified slice names in /etc/fstab?  I read Mark's web page and was
> > just about to go "hey!  that can't be right!" when I went to look at
> > beast and saw that it was also using the compatability slice,
> > presumably for good reason.  WTF?  Was I asleep in class that day? I
> > missed something.. :-)
> > 
> 
> Because there aren't any slices.  All the alphas with SRM will be using
> 'dangerously' dedicated disks with *no* DOS MBR at all.  Doesn't the
> compatibility slice just mean "the first MBR slice with code 165"?

Please don't confuse the issue; disks used for booting from SRM are 
*NOT* 'dangerously dedicated', they're truly dedicated.  You're welcome 
to look at the differences, or just accept that the two aren't the 
same.

-- 
\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
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