Hi: Please excuse me for asking rather 'naive' question.
i've rtfm'd at http://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/netbsd.html Now, i have a boot disk (NetBSD terminology) of 320 GB (SATA II). Booted my laptop with 'boot.iso' (NetBSD-current) and using the 'NetBSD' fdisk utility, i created two MBR partitions (NetBSD terminology) of the following size: partition no 1: 20 GB (base system, src) partition no 2: 300 GB (pkgsrc, other sources, mails etc.) i intend to setup 'ffs' on both the MBR partitions. in the linux world, the disk would typically be '/dev/sda' and the two profound partitions would be /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 in the NetBSD scheme of things, the first disk is seen as 'wd0'. In that case, how would the two 'MBR partitions' be addressed as ? i also have a couple of related questions: 1. what is the rationale behind using 'd' in BSD partition to represent the entire disk ? 2. what is the significance of using two representations like wd0 and rwd0 ? 3. does fsck like utility perform better when one has slice with BSD partitions rather than straight DOS like partition ? Thanks in advance for any pointers. thanks Saifi.
