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 \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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