Hi! >>>>> M C Vernon writes:
>> Matthew, all your partition names were fine *except* for the >> location of the paging file. /dev/hd1b refers to the second >> BSD-style partiton on the second hard disk. /dev/hd1s2 refers to >> the second fdisk-style partition on the second hard disk (your >> Hurd swap partiton). MCV> So when (if at all) do I use the BSD-style ones? Only if you already have some *BSD system installed, and used it to partition your disk. All the BSD's use a different kind of partitioning scheme: you divide an fdisk'ed ``slice'' into BSD ``subpartitions''. So, sd0s1b refers to the BSD `b' partition within slice 1. sd0b is only a valid partition when you don't have any fdisk'ed slices on your hard drive. In other words, if you're not using a BSD system (i.e. you're using only Linux or the Hurd), you should totally ignore the whole idea of BSD slices, because they just add confusion. -- Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/) Lovers of freedom, unite! \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/)
