[rescue] Re: OpenBSD

[Robert Novak]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Linc Fessenden wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, George Adkins wrote:
> 
> > Dude...  The last time I installed DeadRat (for myself) that was exactly what 
> > it was...  along with the annoyance that s1-s3 are FDISK partitions (as in 
> > dos...) and the s4 is an fdisk (dos) extended partition, so that any further 
> > slicing is actually are actually 'virtual drives' inside of the s4 extended 
> > partition.
> 
> That explains a lot.  I have been running RedHat since 5.2 and have
> *never* seen that.  So, I am forced to believe that the last time you ran
> Linux was in it's utter infancy.  

I have to agree with Linc. The "virtual drives" on my system are numbered
linear, so while they do use an extended partition, there's no subdividing
stuff. 

Linux alyssa 2.2.13adv5 #11 SMP Mon Aug 27 20:59:25 PDT 2001 i686 unknown
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17689267 [8637 MB] [8.6 GB]
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 35843670 [17501 MB] [17.5 GB]
Partition check:
 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 sda10 sda11 sda12 >
 sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4

That's life sometimes.

--Rob

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