From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 16 10:12: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB11737B406 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 10:12:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F42FBD01; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 10:12:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA17357; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 10:12:05 -0700 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f8GHBiC45653; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 10:11:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" Cc: Fergus Cameron , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i dont unsterstand the disk label maker References: <1000475917.3ba20d0dee7b2@webmail.neomedia.it> <20010914151110.A2094@dedog.argus-systems.co.uk> <01091523312002.16877@i8k.babbleon.org> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 16 Sep 2001 10:11:44 -0700 In-Reply-To: <01091523312002.16877@i8k.babbleon.org> Message-ID: Lines: 8 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Someone wrote: > > there IBM partitions on your disk. Anyone know the history of IBM-PC hard disk partitions? What this scheme developed by IBM for their BIOS or by M$ for their M$-M$DOS and IBM-PCDOS, or can we fairly call it a true conspiracy by both (to give people grief well into the 21st Century)? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message