Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:13:49 -0500 (CDT) From: "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu> To: "Bond, Jeffery" <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk> Cc: "'Ladavac Marino'" <mladavac@metropolitan.at>, "'FreeBSD questions'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Partitioning the disk for FreeBSD Message-ID: <199906101513.KAA46478@beowulf.utmb.edu> In-Reply-To: <DD2AB7991BC6D211988E00A024AC583B5DFA09@exchange.nectech.co.uk> References: <DD2AB7991BC6D211988E00A024AC583B5DFA09@exchange.nectech.co.uk>
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Well I _could_ say Unix was there first! ;-) I agree that this is confusing to {DOS,Windows,Linux}-heads. Blame IBM for screwing up the nomenclature with the introduction of the XT. This whole "problem" is a consequence of the "multiple operating systems on one hard disk" capability plus converging incompatible nomenclature schemes. If we had to set up a separate hard disk for every OS we wanted to run, the PC boot procedure would probably look a whole lot more like that of a Sun or (pick your own favorite commercial Unix vendor). Bud Dodson Bond, Jeffery writes: > Hi Marino > > Yes, same as DOS, Windows, Linux, but I agree that that the disklabel > 'partitions' are partitions in the UNIX world. It is still confusing though, > and I don't know a way around it really. It's just a shame that what DOS, > windows and Linux users call a 'partition', we call a 'slice'. > > Regards, > > Jeff > > [elided] -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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