On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Rachel Hitchcock wrote:

> >Most likely you made the common mistake of naming your /usr partition to 
> >be a non-root one so NetBSD didn't accept it as a Root&Usr partition.  
> >Just remember, all NetBSD partitions are NAMED either SWAP or ROOT&USR.  
> >Partitions with names of Slice, Free, Extra, etc are all basically 
> >ignored by NetBSD.
> 
> Yes, exactly! Since I wanted two partitions, one for usr, one for the
> rest, I created an "A/UX Root" partition and an "A/UX Usr" partition.
> 
> So what you are saying is that I should have made both of them
> "A/UX Root&Usr" partitions... Damn! Now I have to borrow my friends

No.  NetBSD recognizes the following:

Root&Usr or Root (mounted on /, generally)
Usr (mounted wherever it's specified in fstab)
Swap (never mounted, used as virtual storage)


> that /dev/sd0a and /dev/sd0g are not clean, and prompts me to
> fsck them?

You may have to run fsck on new partitions anyway.  At least I always did
when creating new partitions.

Later,

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