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From: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Another fdisk partition for 386/ix.
Summary: no such luck
Message-ID: <1989Nov15.175055.913@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>
Date: 15 Nov 89 17:50:55 GMT
References: <1763@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Reply-To: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Organization: Segue Software, Cambridge MA
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The 386/ix HPDD really expects only to find one Unix partition per disk.
I expect it wouldn't be too hard to trick fdisk into making another one,
but I'd be astonished if you could mount it sucessfully.  This isn't really
ISC's fault, as they inherited the layout scheme from AT&T.

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John R. Levine, Segue Software, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 864 9650
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