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From: Douglas A. Gwyn DAGwyn@null.net
Subject: [9fans] DVD drive support?
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 09:32:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000324093211.9plR8DCpNmgDcdW6nmdqvRJJcwd-8hfkGg31ZUwS9zo@z> (raw)

Bengt Kleberg wrote:
> > Anyway, I would *sure* like Plan 9 on x86 to honor the standard
> > disk partitioning scheme, instead of living in "empty space".
> Actually, it is quite neat. Ie means that it is possible to have 5 OSs installed,
> despite the standard 4 partitions is max.

You can use multiple disks in such a case.
There really isn't any excuse for Plan 9 on x86 not cooperating
with the partitioning scheme used by *all* other x86 OSes,
including several flavors of Unix.




             reply	other threads:[~2000-03-24  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-03-24  9:32 Douglas [this message]
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2000-03-27  8:24 Will
2000-03-24 14:37 Nigel
2000-03-24 14:07 jmk
2000-03-24 10:49 forsyth
2000-03-24 10:11 Bengt
2000-03-23  9:35 Jolt-Freak
2000-03-22  8:41 Bengt
2000-03-22  2:16 YAMANASHI
2000-03-21 17:56 Douglas
2000-03-21  4:08 jmk
1994-03-27  2:59 okamoto
1994-03-22  1:01 okamoto
1994-03-21  1:29 okamoto

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