NetBSD-Users archive   Re: boot disk has two MBR partitions  On
Sat, 23 Feb 2013, David Lord wrote:  On 23 Feb 2013 at 20:18,
Saifi Khan wrote:   Please excuse me for asking rather 'naive'
question.  i've rtfm'd at  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   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  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 ?  The NetBSD part of the
disk is usually split into partitions  ID mount point a: / b:
swap c: NetBSD partitions d: whole disk e: /usr f: /tmp g: /var
The 'mbrlabel' command helped insert the