From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 22 13:34:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA26109 for current-outgoing; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 13:34:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.monmouth.com (root@shell.monmouth.com [205.164.220.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA26100 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 13:34:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i4got.lakewood.com (fh-ppp28.monmouth.com [205.164.221.60]) by shell.monmouth.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA02144; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 16:32:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by i4got.lakewood.com id QAA10262 (8.8.5/IDA-1.6); Tue, 22 Jul 1997 16:34:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Pechter Message-ID: <199707222034.QAA10262@i4got.lakewood.com> Subject: Re: Boot file system idea! (Sick or Slick) To: ahd@kew.com (Drew Derbyshire) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 16:34:28 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199707221837.OAA15935@pandora.hh.kew.com> from Drew Derbyshire at "Jul 22, 97 02:37:12 pm" Reply-to: pechter@lakewood.com X-Phone-Number: 908-389-3592 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL19 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > IMHO, the biggest downside of using FAT as a boot partition are > the limited number (4) of slices on a disk -- I normally use all 4, > with DOS or NT primary, OS/2 Boot Manager, FreeBSD, and an extended > parition. (The splitting of the DOS primary/extended pair insures > I get FreeBSD in the first 512M of the disk.) While I can punt > the boot manager in favor of System Commander or another scheme, > FreeBSD needing two slices is alot of partition table real estate. > Actually, the real fix is the ability for FreeBSD to use extended partitions the way Linux now can. > > "AT&T is a modem test command." > > Sure, remember the old days... $ 1 One Bell System -- It Works! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 | 908-389-3592 pechter@lakewood.com | Save computing history, give an old geek old hardware. This msg brought to you by the letters PDP and the number 11.