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Date:      Mon, 03 Jan 2005 22:47:55 +1000
From:      Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
To:        Phil Regnauld <regnauld+ppc@catpipe.net>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PPC miniinst.iso available
Message-ID:  <41D93EFB.5050104@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050102115505.GA28305@moof.catpipe.net>
References:  <41D4B6BD.3050705@freebsd.org> <20050101213630.GA3034@flow.eu.org> <20050101223317.GA6970@moof.catpipe.net> <41D75B55.2090502@freebsd.org> <20050102115505.GA28305@moof.catpipe.net>

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>> WRT partitions, do you think it would be useful to have them within a
>>slice ? I've been thinking about allowing GPT partitions within a
>>slice for a while, although it does complicate the loader a bit.
> 
> 
> 	I don't really know, I assumed that was the way it worked on PPC as
> 	well as i386.  But considering we don't have the slice restrictions,
> 	it does make sense to use one partition / slice (as OS X sees it).
> 
> 	How is it on Alpha ?  If there's a precedent there, it might be the
> 	way to go.

  Alpha uses native MBR slices/BSD partitions ala FreeBSD/i386.

later,

Peter.



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