[CS-FSLUG] BSD for linux users

Frank Bax fbax at sympatico.ca
Mon Jul 12 08:25:00 CDT 2004


At 07:29 PM 7/11/04, Brian Derr wrote:
>I must say, the installer is insanely convoluted, even for an
>experienced linux user.  I was scratching my head with the fdisk
>followed by disklabel setup, quite a strange thought coming from linux.


For anyone scratching their head about what Brian is referring to, *BSD 
systems use fdisk to allocate a single bsd partition for everything, then 
use disklabel to create "sub-partitions" which are then used in a manner 
familiar to Linux users.

Frank 





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