more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

[Garrett Cooper]

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Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:10:15PM +0100, Christian Baer wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:42:36 -0600 Doug Poland wrote:
>>
>>> # Device        Mountpoint      FStype  Options            Dump    Pass#
>>> /dev/da0s1b     none            swap    sw                 0       0
>>> /dev/da0s1a     /               ufs     rw                 1       1
>>        ^^^^^^
>>
>> Where did you get to create slices. When I installed this system (Sun
>> U60) sysinstall didn't offer the possibility of creating a slice at all.
>> The only devices of this sort that I can create are da0x and da1x - no 's'!
>>
>> Is this due to the SPARC64 plattform or did I miss something?
> 
> It is almost certainly due to your platform. Slices (aka partitions in
> MS-DOS) are pretty much specific to the IBM PC (and derivatives thereof.)

The first step covered the partitions in sysintall, the second step the
slices.

Maybe you did everything beforehand in fdisk before going to the
"graphical" version of disklabel?

- -Garrett
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