Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 16:34:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Pechter <pechter@lakewood.com> To: ahd@kew.com (Drew Derbyshire) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot file system idea! (Sick or Slick) Message-ID: <199707222034.QAA10262@i4got.lakewood.com> In-Reply-To: <199707221837.OAA15935@pandora.hh.kew.com> from Drew Derbyshire at "Jul 22, 97 02:37:12 pm"
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> 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.
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