From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 10:41:44 -0400 From: jmk@plan9.att.com jmk@plan9.att.com Subject: Disc partitions revisited Topicbox-Message-UUID: 25d61ece-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19950922144144.pz6ku2DU9jdS3BSXb4uQOpsGmNcdw7ZhcoWeZRnS1BM@z> > Any reason not to have record in partition table for plan 9 file > system? May be installation of plan 9 is the point of no return? :-} Because we didn't think of it when we started, we didn't know anything about PCs. MS-DOS is just a fancy boot-ROM to get the terminal booted and connected to a fileserver. Trying to shoe-horn partition management in now is awkward, but we're working on it. If only installing Linux didn't keep trashing my OS/2 partition and my PC didn't disappear all this week for UnixExpo, and my CD-ROM drive didn't die and I wasn't being exiled to Bellcore and...