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David O'Brien writes:
 > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 07:14:53PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
 > > You cannot & must not use slicese, only real BSD partition.
 > > 
 > > This really needs to be emphasized somewhere in a FAQ.  Lots of people
 > > make the same mistake you did.
 > 
 > How are people using slices?  I don't know of any of our tools that allow
 > this.  So I am not sure how people believe they are using slices (or are
 > using them).

People may not be using slices (not sure how sysinstall reacts to an
fdisk labeled disk, like from alpha NT, though), but they are shooting
themselves in the foot by not putting / first.

Drew

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