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From: Douglas A. Gwyn DAGwyn@nul...
Subject: [9fans] DVD drive support?
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 09:32:11 GMT

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.